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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cvsup broken beyond compare Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:32:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5hohuf$ai9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5hcl00$1ad$1@news.nol.net> <5he9fl$69o@austin.polstra.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38141 jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) wrote: > No, he just picks up the nearest megaphone and shouts to anybody > who'll listen that the program is "broken beyond compare." > > Now _that's_ annoying. Fully agreed. DEBUG is documented as undocumented :) in the LINT config file. I wonder when people will start using ``options notyet'' and ``options notdef'', and complain that the hell breaks. :-) Btw., catching segfaults is not a new technology. It's said that the original Bourne shell did its memory management this way. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)