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Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4
From: |
Claudio Fontana |
Subject: |
Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4 |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:29:46 +0100 |
Hello Andrew,
On 3/8/07, Andrew L. Moore <address@hidden> wrote:
Antonio,
What happened to the new version of ed that I gave you last summer
which you were so eager to clean up for distribution? After a
cursory look at "your" code, what I see is ed-0.2. In the handful
of places where you took the liberty to change ed 0.2, you introduced
dangerous errors. A few examples (far from complete):
1) Your code breaks on NFS file systems. Hint: don't touch open files.
2) It may look pretty to your aesthetic, but a comparison such as
if (big_uint_a > 2* big_uint_b) ...
will overflow.
3) C-d on stdin is not handled properly, or at all in some cases.
4) File I/O is broken.
These are serious issues.
If Antonio does not want to handle them, I think we should put ed in
unmaintained state again :(
Perhaps it is time to cut your loses and withdraw your work from
circulation. Say the word, and I am happy to take over your difficult job.
-AM
It would be ok, but wasn't the original problem that you had not enough time to
maintain ed in the first place?
Btw I experienced the same thing since I started my new full time job,
as much as I loved maintaining idutils, I had to step down.
Bye,
Claudio
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2007/03/05
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, John Cowan, 2007/03/05
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2007/03/06
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Andrew L. Moore, 2007/03/08
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4,
Claudio Fontana <=
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2007/03/08
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Paul Jackson, 2007/03/08
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Andrew L. Moore, 2007/03/08
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Paul Jackson, 2007/03/08
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Andrew L. Moore, 2007/03/09
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, Paul Jackson, 2007/03/09
- Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4, John Cowan, 2007/03/09