On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 19:37:23 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 09:44 AM 10/1/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> I was thinking of some `production' code (written by a sister company)
>> that I used to provide customer support for. It would regularly core
>> dump (but was automatically restarted). After a few years they did
>> manage to fix the core dump, but that exposed a memory leak which they
>> never did manage to fix (fairly embarrasing in a supposedly
>> permanently running process).
>
> Eeew! Can see your point. Tracking down a sig11 problem in a custom
> program right now. Seems to be OS related, but think a bit of work around
> the problem code is in order first.
>
> Oh, the pain of learning. My first project fixing another's code. Or at
> least trying. At least it doesn't harm functionality, so has been bugging
> me for a while and decided enough is enough.
>
>> I gather that root support is the most-asked-for feature in Vinum (when
>> I asked Greg about it some weeks ago, I got about as far as `when will
>> Vinum' before he answered me). As long as recovery works, making it
>> nicer to use is (should be) a lower priority.
>
> This was more directed torwards Greg, but would guess that auto-recovery
> would be fairly requested. Growing plexes (any type) would be #1 on my
> list, auto-recovery #2, and root #3.
You're not typical. But you *can* grow concatenated plexes. You just
can't expand UFS to use the space. That's not a Vinum issue, but
somebody's working on it.
> Best not to bother him about desired features. Would be nice for a
> work status/todo list, but then *that* has to be updated. And yet
> might reduce questions of the "when will" type. Rather like the
> problem page he added.
That's a good idea, I suppose. I'll do that. Done:
http://www.lemis.com/vinum/wishlist.html.
Greg
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