[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>:

> On Dec 18, 2008, at 14:02, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
>> PS. Off topic gratuitous anecdote: [...]
> Do you have a radar number for this?  I'd like to follow the issue 
> since your outrage at these sort of assumptions is something I 
> share and should be fixed.

No. This happened to me just after the lure of unix brought me back 
into the Mac fold (I had been away since MacOS 7), and at the time, I 
had no idea about radars or an inkling that one could indeed report 
bugs to Apple. [*]

As soon as I find a bit of leftover time lying around that I can play 
with, I'll investigate this all over again and file a bug report if 
the issue is still there.

- Harald

[*] Also, I had some rather negative experiences with reporting bugs 
to big computer companies. Way back, in an early version of Solaris, 
/bin/kill was a one line shell script. That shell script was buggy: 
It lacked a #! line and would therefore not work with all variants of 
the exec() call. In particular, it didn't work with rc and es, which 
don't have a kill builtin. Stupidly, I had included in my bug report 
a small C program that exhibited the error. The response? Don't call 
exec() on /bin/kill, use signal() instead. Aaargh.

I'll stop posting anecdotes now. I promise.
Wait - did you hear the one about