From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21480 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2015 07:45:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 34206 Received: (qmail 19494 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2015 07:45:26 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=X+5rdgje c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=U8x73H08pUQ9rBATJ7Nnpg==:117 a=U8x73H08pUQ9rBATJ7Nnpg==:17 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=04QV89HDmiACsJvyIekA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <54B0D893.4080202@eastlink.ca> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 23:45:23 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: PATCH: hist: remove wrong NULL terminator References: <1420807419-9270-1-git-send-email-mikachu@gmail.com> <54B013C5.6090307@eastlink.ca> <54B04A7A.1010402@eastlink.ca> <20150109223028.6e003bff@ntlworld.com> <54B066C5.3010008@eastlink.ca> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 01/09/2015 04:39 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Except it *is* a veiled comment, because you ask how "the culture" > could allow this to "pass unnoticed" No sir, it is a question. And I think the answer has been given, and it is that there has tended to be a shortage of testers. > as if simply by having a > different attitude we could have emulated thousands of lines of code > in our heads to find all possible errors ... and that's another part of it, that things are so complicated. > (even those that have no side ... and that it's not serious anyway. (In DOS, something like that would be a crasher.) > effects, like this one) during the years that sophisticated automatic > analysis tools were simply not available except possibly to > well-funded corporate teams. ... and that too: zsh is not a big project nor funded in any way. Quite astonishing what has been achieved, given all that, I'd say. And as to 'simply having a different attitude' ... I wish it was simple, look at the trouble I'm having ;-) I'm bugging people, better drop out of sight. > >