[1782] in athena10
Re: proposed report: 3/19/09
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Mar 19 19:59:35 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903191948320.11188@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903191955170.4457@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
> 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.
I agree. The patch is harmful in that it deliberately introduces another
bug that has nothing to do with the original problem except in that it
makes the original problem subtler (hence also more dangerous) and harder
to reproduce (hence also harder to debug). We should revert it.
Anders
