Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue

[David Konerding]

Joerg Pommnitz wrote:

> David Konerding <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>  > But the attitude that "many eyes make all bugs shallow" and "let the
>  > users test the code for us" just don't hold up.  For the former,
>  > clearly, many eyes didn't find a lot of basically obvious bugs, for the
>  > latter, it's just impolite.
>
> You mentioned the CHECKER case as proof for your point that "many eyes
> make all bugs shallow" does not work. One might argue the other way
> around: The CHECKER people actually found the bugs, so it works.

No, the CHECKER people themselves didn't find any bugs.  They wrote a clever
analyzer
that finds error patterns (actually, just patterns) and submitted them.  Some
false positives, but worse,
an uncountable number of false negatives and as-yet-unknown error patterns.
That's not "a lot of eyes", it's a few brains and a fast computer.  I'm not
saying that's a *bad* thing but I certainly don't think it's an example of
"lots of eyes".

>
>
> Regards
>   Joerg
>
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