From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:59:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wrj1jhfc.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87hba5yq0p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <834o64sxd7.fsf@gnu.org> <4DA3A7F8.1020503@cs.ucla.edu> <83k4f0qijz.fsf@gnu.org> <4DA3DDCD.10700@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA40AFE.8050406@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA47581.9010509@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA53148.5000903@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA55B85.5090305@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA5C9F6.3070209@cs.ucla.edu> <83bp0aqd6k.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302724774 24722 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2011 19:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 21:59:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QA6Dp-0006lr-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57883 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA6Do-00064B-MF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA6Dm-000644-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA6Dl-00059Y-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.183]:56958) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QA6Dk-00057r-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 9137 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2011 19:59:13 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.183) with ESMTP; 13 Apr 2011 19:59:12 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so890482fxm.0 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.87.215 with SMTP id x23mr1599733fal.32.1302724749919; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.96.143 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:59:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83bp0aqd6k.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.202.165.183 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:138465 Archived-At: On 4/13/11, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:06:14 -0700 >> From: Paul Eggert >> CC: jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> On 04/13/2011 02:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > Either you care about future changes or you don't. >> >> Both. I care about plausible future changes; and I also realize that >> we don't have time to program for all possibilities and need to fix >> what's before us, which the proposed patch does. > > IOW, you care for what supports your arguments and don't care about > the rest. Always assume good faith. It's far more likely that he's making the argument because his priorities are different from yours than that he's adjusting his priorities to support the argument. :-) -PJ