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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 15:59:45 +0200
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.
Message-ID:  <20010505155945.A8812@chunky.cacheboy.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010502232037.76222B-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0400
References:  <20010501165654K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010502232037.76222B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, May 02, 2001, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT.
> > > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the
> > > codebase before?
> > 
> > No, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something
> > sharp to inflict quite this much damage on our user base. ;-) 
> 
> Obviously I haven't been playing in the right bits of the system, I'll
> have to start hacking the low-level stuff in FFS some more...  I tend not
> to cause permanent damage to file systems, sadly.
> 
> I think we can all take lessons from phk here -- he achieves a level of
> destructiveness that makes even the pro's marvel in wonder.

*grin*

Its ok. phk has just reminded us of what -current really is .. :-)




Adrian


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