Comments on: Happy birthday MySQL Bug #36810! http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/happy-birthday-mysql-bug-36810/ Mon, 21 May 2012 20:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Zen»Blog Archive » See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back (and vice-versa) In Less Than 15 Lines of…Perl http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/happy-birthday-mysql-bug-36810/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Zen»Blog Archive » See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back (and vice-versa) In Less Than 15 Lines of…Perl Thu, 14 May 2009 02:40:06 +0000 http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/?p=31#comment-7 [...] the Twitter API was so well documented, I felt like having a go at it. I broke the lazyness rule(again) at my own peril, so bug reports, suggestions and criticism are always [...] [...] the Twitter API was so well documented, I felt like having a go at it. I broke the lazyness rule(again) at my own peril, so bug reports, suggestions and criticism are always [...]

]]> By: admin http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/happy-birthday-mysql-bug-36810/comment-page-1/#comment-5 admin Tue, 12 May 2009 18:59:26 +0000 http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/?p=31#comment-5 Hi Bron, nice to meet you. You bet the repeatable case was most useful, it was only after your proof of concept that MySQL officially ack'ed the bug. Thanks for coming by. Best wishes, Ze Hi Bron, nice to meet you. You bet the repeatable case was most useful, it was only after your proof of concept that MySQL officially ack’ed the bug.
Thanks for coming by.
Best wishes, Ze

]]> By: Bron Gondwana http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/happy-birthday-mysql-bug-36810/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Bron Gondwana Tue, 12 May 2009 04:34:28 +0000 http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/?p=31#comment-3 As you can see from that bug report, I hit the bug too! I also provided a test case which proved that the bug existed by making it easy for anyone else to recreate. Generally a useful response to a bug if you can manage it. I've done so for a nasty little mmap bug in the Linux kernel and got a similarly good result. Developers do love a repeatable test case! (er, well - of course it's still in the versions that have the bug... I might give 4.010 a go myself sometime) As you can see from that bug report, I hit the bug too!

I also provided a test case which proved that the bug existed by making it easy for anyone else to recreate. Generally a useful response to a bug if you can manage it. I’ve done so for a nasty little mmap bug in the Linux kernel and got a similarly good result. Developers do love a repeatable test case!

(er, well – of course it’s still in the versions that have the bug… I might give 4.010 a go myself sometime)

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