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Quotes of the week

jch — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:32:07 +0000

Yeah, the usual "userspace programmers are stupid, I won't even check the source" attitude from the kernel people.

Folks, we understand that kernel development is a complex task, that's why we work around kernel lossage without complaints. Can we have just a little bit of respect?

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niner — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:35:02 +0000

Funny that I hit this exact error just a day before this lwn edition was published. It occured on a really crappy mobile connection with ping times of a full minute and large package loss (as you can imagine). I guess such a barely existent network connection can lead to surprising error cases.

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Anssi — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:31:20 +0000

According to the discussion on the Debian bugreport ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709052 ) it was a case of uninitialized variable which triggered the message.

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pr1268 — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:23:18 +0000

Darn... I was hoping we might have stumbled upon another Easter Egg of the "your printer is on fire" variety. :-)

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klossner — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:55:34 +0000

Ping doesn't actually check the kernel version. It prints the "not very fresh" message when it sees an IP_RECVERR breakage that was supposedly fixed in 2.4.9. There are scattered bug reports that say this still happens sporadically, so apparently the breakage wasn't completely healed.