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Re: [PATCH] Fix resource leak in resolver (bug 19257)
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:17:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix resource leak in resolver (bug 19257)
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On 02/09/2016 08:11 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> I just want to avoid future mistakes of this kind.
>
> The only future is to rewrite the resolver from scratch.
I would always like to see incremental progress for bugs we fix,
and that includes adding enough comments to prevent future regressions
(which may be on release branches which will never get a rewrite).
Cheers,
Carlos.