> This is actually a correctness bug for other applications that use the filesystem and use GHC, right?
Right, with darcs perhaps being the most popular. > GHC is returning incorrect values for file size and other stats, is that right? I believe so. > And darcs somehow manages to turn this incorrect answer into a correct but slow answer? Yes, it seems to trigger fallback mechanism. > What about the option of patching the GHC shipped by Ubuntu to not have this bug without changing the ABI? Stefan said "the fix would change the ghc6 abi". That could be clarified was to whether *any* fix would do that, or fixing it via upgrading 6.8.3 would do that. Let me restate Zooko's concern more plainly from a users perspective: Is there a way to ship a fixed darcs binary, regardless of what happens with GHC and the Haskell package chain? -- ghc 6.8.2 has important performance bug, should be updated to 6.8.3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
