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Re: Question about top
- To: Shachar Shemesh <linuxil(at-nospam)consumer.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Question about top
- From: guy keren <choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:38:52 +0300 (EET DST)
- cc: Miki Shapiro <aris(at-nospam)pharoe.com>, Happy Linux Campers <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Are you saying the Solaris OS bug frequency is 1/half year, while linux's is
> zero, that linux doesn't have OS bugs, or that you never did any large
> projects on Linux?
the last option (i didn't do any large project on linux). what i describe
is ofcourse my _perosnal_ experience, but i've also seen other users of
the system, and can see that bouncing in OS bugs is quite rare. it sounds
comon, since when it happens, people keep talking about it for the 6 month
until they bounce into their next OS bug :) also, its an average figure -
it could be u'll bounce into 2 bugs in a week, and then into none until
the next year. and its not an accurate figure, either.
> While I don't know whether they are downright "bugs", but I hear people
> complain about quality of some of the supporting features in linux all the
> time. Most noteably, the quality of the pthreads.
i did some work on a project that used pthreads on linux (it was on redhat
6.X) - and i don't remember encountering problems. it was a small project
- a few 10Ks of source code, and it didn't use any odd features (where u
r more liklely to bounce onto OS bugs).
and in general - if you count the bugs people have, they are rarely OS
bugs. its usually the programmer's fault. and there are programemrs that
tend to quickly go blaming everyone else's code, instead of their own. i
did that once when i was a student, and thought i encountered a bug in
BSD4.3's C memory manager - and ofcourse the bug (about 13 of them) were
fully mine. that's when i've learned my lesson.
--
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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