>--- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: >[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 20:06:18 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: cvs exit status
>> And your point is what? That it's okay to sometimes let nondeterministic >> errors go undetected? Sorry, that's not good enough. >I think in real life the chance for this overflow having any adverse >affect would be about nil.... You're making a mountain out of a tiny >mole hill. It can, and does, happen. It's happened to me personally, but I was able to catch it by reviewing logs. Back in the CVS 1.3 days when I was working on large projects with CVS, it was enough of a problem that I had to overhaul the error handling code and replace the increments with assignments. >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
