From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 15 23:21:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10021 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA10016 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA23435; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:21:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13940; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:21:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA04934; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:14:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608160614.IAA04934@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: rarpd stops working on FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:14:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: clary@elec.uq.edu.au Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608152219.SAA12997@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Aug 15, 96 06:19:28 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Paul wrote: > > I suspect it's being rarely used this days, so pending bugs are less > > likely to be found than for many other software. > > Don't say things like that. All parts of the OS are important. Bugs > should be fixed no matter where they arise. You've got me entirely wrong. My only argument was that rarpd is not used very much these days, but since most of the bugs are normally found by using some software, the likelihood that somebody experiences, finds, and fixes bugs in something like rarpd is less than e.g. for a bug in the VM system that corrupts all our files... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)