Gordon Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > As mentioned several times before, in November 2010, Illumos decided not to > > collaborate with other developers and in addition ignored a rejected code > > review for a broken od implementation that in turn was added to the illumos > > code base despite a known list of several bugs. > > If there are bugs in the illumos od, why not provide some details > in an illumos bug report? Otherwise this is just annoying noise.
Annoying is the way Illumos dealt with the bug report I made in 2010. Thhis was a real attack against the credibility of the Illumos project. When the code was provided for a review, I took a quick look at it and discovered 7 (IIRC) bugs within 10 minutes. So I send a short list with the bugs to this mailing list. Garret's answer to this short review was not to ask for more details (as people would expect) but to claim that there were no bugs... The most annoying bug was the fact that it was not large file clean because it did not write address labels that include more than the lower 32 address bits. This was a sad news in special as Garret claimed that he did a successful full output compare with a 8 GB file with random content to the closed source Sun version. I provided all details in a more than 3 hour phone call to Garret D'Amore in November 2010. To the end of that phone call, things seemed to be OK, but 3 hours later, the code was included into Illumos with just fixing the large file bug before. So it seems that Garret ignores review results and happily adds code with known problems. To be honest, I don't care about Garret's "od" anymore. Since before Garret added his code with the remaining problems, we have a faster and correct implementation for OpenSolaris that supports both compatibility to Svr4 _and_ POSIX. The od in Illumos is noticeable slower than the code that was created by enhancing "hdump" and the od in Illumos does not support CLI semantics from the SVR4 version at /usr/bin/od. There is no need to care about the implementation that currently is in Illumos. You can get it from SchilliX-ON. BTW: do you believe that Illumos changed since then or could the same happen again? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
