Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/14/1999 10:00:51
>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:53:10 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:
> You keep on saying that users can run the system out of swap
> easily, and I've tried to point out to you that it isn't quite
> as easy as you believe (and I've used a real-life example to
> show my point). You are certainly welcome to come back with
> your own real-life example.
If you cannot imagine such real-life example, then you are lucky guy.
I wish your good luck in future.
> And now you are implying that all bugs can be easily fixed. Ha
> ha! That's funny. I wish that were true!
I never said that bug fix is easy.
What I've said is
- memory consumption is easy
- it is better to fix a bug, rather than stick at it.
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soda