On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:52:31PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:21:05 +0100 > isabella parakiss <izaber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Isabella, > > > i've been told on #2f30 that my opinion is void until i submit meaningful > > patches. this is a rant^Wbreakdown and fix of a random tool in ubase > > I'll look deeper into this later, but I want to note here that back in the > day, dd was imported into ubase from some foreign repo for some performance > tweaks. I was sure back then when Dimitris told me, that this is going to > bite us.
Well yes, importing code that is not thoroughly understood has the potential to cause problems later on. However, this version of dd was stripped down quite a bit from the upstream one. At the end of the day, a bug is a bug irrespective of how it was introduced. I will have a look at the patch tomorrow.
