yeah, we all know story about chief programmer painting door of his room
with poisonoously green paint
and do not answering any questions... ;)
but if you look deeper in content of message, you can see, that core switch
was crashed with simple input
of out-of-range integer parameter. it was not even buffer overflow, because
the number of digits is the same
for legal value and for value causing crucial device srash.
i agree that excellent (and even good) software engineer worth some freedom
for relaxation, it will be
returned to enterprise, but people writing code without any
input-error-handling deserves not relaxation,
fut immediate firing, because such code decreases enterprise image
drastically.
IMNSHO...
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Basil (Vasily) V. Dolmatov CCIE# 5347
LightCom Corp. http://www.lightcom.ru
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin [mailto:ekool@ns1.netmdc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:23 PM
> To: Basil Dolmatov
> Cc: Cisco-Nsp@Puck. Nether. Net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] FW: [inet-talk] DDTs Id CSCds90409 (fwd)
>
>
>
> I certainly dont have a problem with the engineers spending a little time
> relaxing while writing the software. I know i work better when i'm
> relaxed. This is not an issue and we shouldnt make it one.
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Basil Dolmatov wrote:
>
> | Incredible... I understand now, why Cisco IOSes consumes more and more
> | memory
> | and why there are more bugs than functions in new versions...
> |
> | Seems that developers are busy with filling memory with ASCII
> graphics and
> | inventing more reasons for displaying it... :(
>
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