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Re: bug in ash (Was: State of the DLL, mark 2?)


On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:12:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:52:24PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> >well, i've found the reason. moreover, i've found that as was once
> >patched to fix this bug, but later, patch was reverted. i wonder why.
> >did it have some ill side effects?
> 
> Hmm.  I vaguely remember this.  I remember asking Corinna to look into
> this but neither of us had an actual test case that tickled the bug.
> I can't find any email from Corinna explaining why the bug was backed
> out but I wonder if I asked her to do this in a phone call or something.

Correct. I have applied that patch but I never found the bug itself
so Chris asked me to back out the patch again due to a patch for an
unknown bug is somewhat weird.

> I will wait for Corinna to come back from holiday so that she can offer
> the definitive opinion, though.

I will reapply Andy's patch again.

Corinna

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