From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in update-game-score.c Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:56:13 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52E0A0ED.4020601@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8361pbg5vy.fsf@gnu.org> <52E08D31.3080801@cs.ucla.edu> <8338kffj7m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390452998 21210 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 04:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 05:56:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6CLM-0005EO-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:56:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6CLM-0001Fs-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:56:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6CLD-0001Dj-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6CL5-0000MC-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:43920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6CKx-0000LK-Nx; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F38A60003; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:56:18 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PCJ2FyXPRlxT; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:56:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F9D5A60002; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:56:18 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <8338kffj7m.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168933 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The bugfix should have fixed the bug that was reported, and that's it. I could have filed a half-dozen bug reports, one for each bug I fixed, and then installed patches one by one, marking each bug fixed as I did so. But that would have been overkill in this case; it would have been too much work for everybody (particularly for me :-) for too little benefit. The bugs included undefined behavior the very nature of which could be changed by the original fix for the reported bug, and we are talking setuid here, so here was sufficient justification for fixing them. Now that they're fixed we can move on.