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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:54:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dc19 fructration.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302053590.9772-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>
In-Reply-To: <200006301819.LAA07889@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> As I recall, David Gilbert wrote:
> > I'm not 100% satisfied with the patch.  I don't understand the
> > operation of SYSCTL_STRUCT() enough to make it allocatate things
> > dynamically --- it probably should.  As evidenced by the printf(), it
> > knows the number of interfaces it's got right before it bzero()'s the
> > block to initialize it.
> > 
> > The biggest insult was that BDG_MAX_PORTS was defined ... and used
> > elsewhere in the code, but that a static 16 entries was allocated in
> > the status struct (and not range checked anywhere).
> 
> And just to preach to the converted, how long do you think it would
> have taken you to get that fixed if you were running Solaris?

Depending on how you did it, ie - an "Emergency, Production server
down" ticket with Sun, a matter of hours.

> 
> 	-crl
> --
> Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
> chad@dcfinc.com         chad@larsons.org          larson1@home.net   
> DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207
> 
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