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From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BK problem
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:58:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDC0A34.2000006@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205101725.g4AHPOH05574@work.bitmover.com>

Larry McVoy wrote:
> Hi, we've got a problem in one of Linus' trees and it has started to
> propagate around.  I need your help to track it down and fix it.
> Please run the following script on your Linux BK trees and contact
> me if it tells you to do so.  You can fix up the tree by doing the
> following (warning: takes lots and lots of CPU time so if you don't
> need the tree it may well be faster to reclone tomorrow after I finish
> fixing the trees on bkbits).

Would you mind giving something of a lay-man's explanation of what went 
wrong and what that means?  In particular, I'm curious about the 
propagating part...

Eli
--------------------. "If it ain't broke now,
Eli Carter           \                  it will be soon." -- crypto-gram
eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-10 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-10 17:25 BK problem Larry McVoy
2002-05-10 17:58 ` Eli Carter [this message]
2002-05-10 18:15   ` Larry McVoy
2002-05-10 23:10 ` Larry McVoy

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