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 takes a Dane

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 this

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

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 unfair. Too much

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 unfair.

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

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 this

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

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

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

Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.

2001-05-01 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
: 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, it's not common, and it generally takes a Dane swinging something sharp

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 damage

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 maybe