Re: Quote of the day

From	Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Quote of the day
Date	2016-05-17 15:21 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>> The feeling of powerlessness can be crushing when you depend on a
>> third-party component that is broken with no fix in sight.
>
> Presumably it depends on whether you have the source for the third
> party component...

Just having such an experience. The linux kernel has a critical bug in a
major distribution (who shall be left unnamed here) that has been fixed
in a later kernel version.

Thanks to linux being free software, I managed to pin down the root
cause after more than a month of debugging. I sent a bug report to the
linux vendor and attached a tiny patch. The vendor has graciously agreed
to consider releasing an update in the summer (we are in the process of
verifying the fix).

The problem was first detected in December. A semi-reliable reproduction
was discovered in early February. The root cause and proposed fix was
identified mid-March. A vendor fix will likely come out by the end of
June.

That's a long time to be without a product to sell.

Marko

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    Re: Quote of the day Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-05-17 11:30 +0300
      Re: Quote of the day Sivan Greenberg <sivan@vitakka.co> - 2016-05-17 11:53 +0300
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        Re: Quote of the day Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 20:48 +1000
        Re: Quote of the day Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-05-17 15:21 +0300
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