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- From: rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
- Subject: Re: ptys and getpwnam()
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.191037.14102@msc.cornell.edu>
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
- References: <1992Jul30.141015.27287@news.ysu.edu> <1992Aug5.065010.29018@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1251@curly.appmag.com> <1992Aug9.185135.21404@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:10:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug9.185135.21404@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
- |> In article <1251@curly.appmag.com> pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin) writes:
- |> >As things stand now, not fixing bugs because they haven't been
- |> >"officially reported" is a useless charade.
- |>
- |> No, it is NOT a useless charade . . .
-
- A chance to get this off my chest!
-
- One of the reasons why you will see horrendous bugs discussed on usenet
- and not reported to the IBM "Defect Support Center" (who thought up that
- name?!) is the absurd difficulty of submitting a simple piece of test
- code to IBM.
-
- Fact 1: In about 100 calls, I have not found a single person at DSC who
- was aware of the existance of the "aixserv" service for submitting PMR's
- and supporting material via the internet. You can certainly use it anyway
- if you know about it, but if you don't, the DSC people won't know enough
- to suggest it.
-
- With the number of disgusting regression bugs, not to mention new
- ones, in AIX 3.2, I simply cannot submit every one I find.
-
- (AIX 3.2.2 plus the latest update tape ("U405614 and others") contain more
- than 300 updates which each contain multiple "fixes". I get to apply these
- to 30 machines. There isn't enough time in the world to even figure out
- which of them I really need.)
-
-
- Fact 2: The last time I submitted some supporting C code via
- "aixserv", all the square and curly brackets got changed to blanks
- (presumably by some EBCDIC translate table) and I had to spend an hour
- on the phone telling somebody where to put them back.
-
-
- JFH ought to try living in the real world.
-
- Obviously not having a good week.
- -Rick
-
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