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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:54 -0400
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Paolo Pisati <piso@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet/libalias alias_db.c alias_irc.c
Message-ID:  <20080319172754.GB44884@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20080319165522.GA95772@tin.it>
References:  <200803191150.m2JBoj6j020138@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080319165336.GA44656@zim.MIT.EDU> <20080319165522.GA95772@tin.it>

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:53:36PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> > 
> > By the way, is any of this security-relevant, or is there a
> > different reason why most of your recent commits have been
> > insta-MFCed? Usually things are given a chance to sit in HEAD for
> > a few days so that any problems get caught before the changes are
> > MFCed.
> 
> no, but the fix was trivial so i decided to MFC immediately.

Yes, but isn't it the case that it's a fix for a bug in another
change that also got insta-MFCed? The point is that even "trivial"
changes often have unexpected problems, e.g., they don't compile
for some random architecture, so it's often a good idea to let
them settle to avoid breaking STABLE.



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