From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA11731; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:14:33 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12654 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:14:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hAKFET118043 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:14:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id hAKFE3C14193; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:14:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:13:21 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: skaller cc: Martin Berger , Caml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC and file descriptors In-Reply-To: <1069305437.24578.60.camel@pelican> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 debugging:01 debugging:01 descriptors:01 nov:01 nov:01 wrote:03 wrote:03 redirect:95 brian:06 brian:06 source:07 difficult:07 fails:07 correctly:08 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 20 Nov 2003, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:29, Brian Hurt wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Martin Berger wrote: > > > you are opening yourself up to heisenbugs, where the > > program works correctly with debugging turned on, and fails with debugging > > turned off). > > OH! Where did that wonderful name heisenbugs come from? > I got it from the Jargon file. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners