Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6

At 11:51 PM 6/5/99 +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>It is not a genuine bug (as it only slows thong down instead of 
>getting wrong results), but still a misfeature.

Well, it depends on how one defines "bug", I suppose :)  In the
strictest sense you're correct, yet for real world use, particularly
in environments with high traffic, it's a killer.  

>It is most likely an ancient quickfix for some execution path that 
>failed to set the dirty mark when it should have.

Yep, I remember this from the earlier conversation, too.



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