From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964835AbWGEM0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:26:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964837AbWGEM0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:26:52 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:27095 "EHLO pixels.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964835AbWGEM0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:26:52 -0400 Message-ID: <44ABB0B4.6050107@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:29:40 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Scott CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Huge problem with XFS/iCH7R References: <20060702195145.GA4098@localhost.halifax.rwth-aachen.de> <20060703163216.B1474487@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44A98A0B.8080203@tmr.com> <20060704084740.A1462688@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060704084740.A1462688@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nathan Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:20:11PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> New features are neat, but I wouldn't put up >> with that if it made my cat pee holy water. > > Not sure what new features you're talking about here? Nor how your > cat fits into all this.. ;) Presumably the new features which required or encouraged a kernel upgrade. Why else would anyone ever mess with a working system? I count bugfixes and performance enhancements as new features for this discussion, some improvement to justify change. -- Bill Davidsen Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.