On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 04:18  PM, der Mouse wrote:

> So when someone commits something broken, the modern position is to
> tell people who notice "so fix it", rather than to back it out?

If the person responsible for that subsystem has no way to reproduce 
the failure, what is that person supposed to do?  Guess?  Change random 
lines of code in hopes that it the problem goes away?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>