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DateFri, 03 Jan 1997 11:54:33 -0500 (EST)
From"Mark H. Wood" <>
SubjectRe: too much untested code in new kernels
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Patricia Cross wrote:

> Roy P. Turner wrote:
> > I may be wrong, but I thought the purpose of the dev kernels, is so that
> > we, the willing, can test them and report bugs to the maintainers.  
> 
> Yes, the development kernels are there so we can test them, but I really
> don't think it's too much to ask that the person submitting a change at
> least _compile_ it before turning it in.  Why would anyone turn it a
> change that they don't even know works on one single system?

Hear, hear.  I don't think that the original post asked for an
exhaustive system test, but rather just a "smoke test" to see if there is 
any chance that the patched code will function.  I've seen at least one such 
big boo-boo slip through into commercial production code, so I say you 
can't test early enough.

Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.


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