Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, May 02, 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. > > > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the > > > codebase before? > > > > No, it's not common, and it generally

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think we can all take lessons from phk here -- he achieves a level of > > destructiveness that makes even the pro's marvel in wonder. > > Your criticism is grossly unf

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-04 Thread Noses
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think we can all take lessons from phk here -- he achieves a level of >> destructiveness that makes even the pro's marvel in wonder. > > Your criticism is grossly unfai

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-04 Thread J Wunsch
John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your criticism is grossly unfair. Throughout the very long time he's > been active in this project, PHK's contribution/breakage ratio has > been unsurpassed. And btw., the recent stdio breakage wasn't all that bad either, and it completely happened in u

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-04 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we can all take lessons from phk here -- he achieves a level of > destructiveness that makes even the pro's marvel in wonder. Your criticism is grossly unfair. Throughout the very long time he's been active in

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. > > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the > > codebase before? > > No, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something > sharp to inflict quite

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this bug. > In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leaving > you with maybe one or two files in /lost+found. spec_vnops.c rev 1.156 > is should be avoided at all c

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:23:59PM -0500, GH wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > > Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this bug. > > In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leaving > > you with

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-May-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. >> Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the >> codebase before? > > No, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something > sharp to inflict quite this much

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current. > > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. > > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the > > codebase before? > > No

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the > codebase before? No, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something sharp to inflict quite this much damage on our user base. ;-) - Jordan To Un

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread GH
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this bug. > In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leaving > you with maybe one or two files in /lost+found. spec_vnops.c rev 1.

HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread Peter Wemm
Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this bug. In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leaving you with maybe one or two files in /lost+found. spec_vnops.c rev 1.156 is should be avoided at all costs. BEWARE: there are some snapshots on curr