NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.
All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
use Perl Log In
djberg96 (2603)
djberg96
(email not shown publicly)
(email not shown publicly)
Wednesday July 16, 2003
02:21 PM
Two bugs in one day
Since I'm going to send out a new release anyway, I was going to add a BTIME constant (the btime value out of /proc/stat) to the Linux code. It happens to be something I want and I figured it would be easy enough to add. I decided to add it as a constant because its not tied to any particular process (except maybe 0).
That's when I discovered...the btime value kept incrementing! WTF? This didn't happen at home on my Suse laptop. Sure enough, it's a RedHat bug (also in some versions of Debian). That was enough inspiration to (hopefully) convince my co-worker to replace the RedHat boxes with Slackware. In his defense, the only reason he installed BugHat in the first place was for Oracle, which he said he couldn't get to work with any flavor *except* RedHat.
ARGH!
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
Two bugs in one day 0 Comments More | Login | Reply /