[c-nsp] SXH7 funny

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Thu Apr 8 14:16:00 EDT 2010


We dot try to make public any bug that goes out in shipping code.

We don't catch 100%.

The idea is that all the bugs we find in internal testing before code 
ships should not show up outside as it would just dilute the ones that do.

Rodney



On 4/8/10 12:38 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote:
>>> Is it normal to hide all the bugs at Cisco?
>
>> If a bug is found in dev-test it is marked as internal and fix is put
>> in. Later if someone in the field hit the same bug, then it is made
>> external.
>
> And while "security" bugs might be justified to use that
> approach, the default should be on openness, rather than
> secrecy once the bug is verified that it can be
> encountered by a customer in a valid configuration.  It
> would save a lot of time (and Cisco support costs) for
> those that do check the bug toolkit.
>
>
>
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