[DGD] objregwatch flagged

[Raymond Jennings]

I would of course not ask anyone to actually debug the code.  I was
figuring that objregd integrity was a basic invariant and verification of
its *intended* behavior would be a simple matter of design recall.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Kris Van Hees <aedil at alchar.org> wrote:
>
>> At the risk of stepping in the middle of an issue...
>
>
> You are, but that doesn't mean you are unwelcome.  As far as I know this
> is a public list and the issue isn't exactly a personal one that I know of.
>
> As I detail below you've actually touched on an area of developership I am
> rather naive about.
>
>
>> It is slightly
>> unreasonable to request the author of some code to guarantee correctness
>> so you can rule out any potential issues in the code you forked from
>> prior to ensuring your own code is correct.
>
>
> I did not know this.
>
> It is customary that if
>> you find a problem, you perform the analysis,
>
>
> This was a no brainer when the code is original.  When you start with
> someone else's code, it got fuzzy for me and I didn't see a problem with
> poking him for advice first, especially since the changes I made didn't
> seem to have anything to do with the problem I encountered.
>
>
>> and if the problem is in
>> your code, you fix it, and if you find credible evidence that the problem
>> is in the original code, then you report that problem (and often, still
>> try to provide a fix also).
>>
>
> Believe it or not I actually appreciate this kind of advice.
>  Collaboration with other coders is not really something I have a lot of
> experience with.
>
>         JMHO,
>>         Kris
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 03:37:15PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> > I was asking about your version that I forked from, which I assumed you
>> > were still responsible for.
>> >
>> > If your version is guaranteed not to do this, then I can narrow the bug
>> > down to either my own changes or a glitch in DGD :P.
>> >
>> > I do apologize though for not being specific.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Is there a case where the objregd list might legitimately be
>> corrupted?
>> > > >
>> > > > As in due to misbehavior/errors in other code, and not due to a klib
>> > > > problem or dgd problem?
>> > >
>> > > You forked the kernel library, you put out the announcement:
>> > >
>> > >     "After some wrangling with git, I have volunteered to take over
>> > >     maintenance of the kernel library."
>> > >
>> > > Now you're going to have to do your own debugging.
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Felix Croes
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