flink() at last?

Posted Aug 31, 2013 18:08 UTC (Sat) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
In reply to: flink() at last? by spender
Parent article: flink() at last?

Hey Brad,

Concerning "Willy contacted me in private (hopefully not as an example of http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/foxcrow.htm)", I wanted to confirm this was not such an example (it's a bit hurtful), I was sincere and wanted to see progress made after I failed on your challenge for a whole week-end looking in the wrong direction (as you noticed BTW).

Then I passed my understanding of the problem (no single line of your e-mail as you requested) to the sec list, my understanding was not 100% accurate but that was enough for others to guess it and at the same time you corrected me, then Andy replied with you and LKML in Cc so you had the rest of all the thread.

And the thread that started next on how to globally solve the issue goes in the direction you hoped for. It was a good exercise for me but I think that if you had explained your concern to the authors from the start we'd have saved one week (but I wouldn't have learned the *at syscalls :-)).

I still hope to see you one day participate to this list to help fix critical issues faster and/or better.

Cheers,
Willy