Re: Setting ones's priorities (was: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:57 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:10:01PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX'
> > > unconditionally.
> > 
> > Why stop with this one?
> 
> So, if I interpret things correctly you essentially say that you'd rather
> want me to fix other peoples's software (like the git rcs) instead of
> fixing our own software (like trying to trace that new libdiskfs dead
> lock I just found)?  Having me do both is not possible genereally,
> because my time is limited.

No, you should spend your time on the Hurd, because there are fewer
people that can do that work.  Keep track of programs that have PATH_MAX
or access(NULL) problems, and when people say, "how can I help", we can
point them at this list.

File Debian bug reports on the Debian packages concerned.  Let the
Debian maintainers cope with dealing with upstream (after all, it's what
they have volunteered for).

Thomas

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part