[1781] in athena10
Re: proposed report: 3/19/09
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Mar 19 19:53:58 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:52:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> * debathena-xdsc: I don't like this patch, because it feels like it's
> failing to understand the underlying problem. However, nobody seems to
> be interested in writing a better patch, so I'm inclined to go with
> memory leaks over crashing.
>
> Plan: move to production on Monday, to give any interested parties
> time to write a better patch
I would prefer that we revert the patch and leave xdsc broken than that we
deploy the version with a patch that just obscures the real problem.
-Tim Abbott
