On 5 August 2013 20:13, Joerg Schilling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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...

Joerg, would you mind helping us, please? Could you send a shell
script (Bourne or otherwise) which shows each bug with a single test,
please?

The test should look similar like out=$(LC_ALL=POSIX od -... 2>&1) [
"$out" == "expected value" ] || echo "you failed, because..."

> 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.

But you never filed bug reports, do you? It does not HELP if you do
not file bug reports or alternatively write a test script which
highlights the problems so that others can investigate, discuss and
fix the problems. Just citing phone calls between two persons does not
help unless there is a recording or someone took notes.

Professional attitude, please.

Lionel


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