Fw: [1.7] "broken" pipe implementation?

[Dave Korn-6]

Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>  It qualifies as a "What in
>> the world was I thinking?" problem.
>
> No idea what that is.

  The kind of bug you write when you've been up all night writing code, and
you finally crash out, and when you wake up refreshed a few hours later you
look at it and go "My god, this is all gibberish!  I must have gone
temporarily mad!".

  Happened to me just the other night. :-P

    cheers,
      DaveK

[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:40:49PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:

>Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>It qualifies as a "What in the world was I thinking?" problem.
>>
>>No idea what that is.
>
>The kind of bug you write when you've been up all night writing code,
>and you finally crash out, and when you wake up refreshed a few hours
>later you look at it and go "My god, this is all gibberish! I must have
>gone temporarily mad!".
>
>Happened to me just the other night.  :-P

Ah, so it isn't just me.

In this case, I cleverly rewrote the named pipe handling to use
overlapped I/O and real named pipes but only did 95% of the
implementation.  I missed the select() part although I have a clear
remembrance of implementing it.  Must have been a late-night
hallucination.

That's why I spent the first hour of debugging setting breakpoints
and saying "Huh?  Why didn't it get there???"

cgf

[Warren Young]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> "My god, this is all gibberish! I must have
>> gone temporarily mad!".
>>
>> Happened to me just the other night.  :-P
>
> Ah, so it isn't just me.

We all program on drugs.  Caffeine, obviously, but also serotonin,
dopamine, fatigue toxins....we're ambulatory chemical manufactories.
'Splains a lot, donnit?

[Corinna Vinschen-2]

On Feb 27 15:28, Warren Young wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> "My god, this is all gibberish! I must have
>>> gone temporarily mad!".
>>>
>>> Happened to me just the other night.  :-P
>>
>> Ah, so it isn't just me.
>
> We all program on drugs.  Caffeine, obviously, but also serotonin,  
> dopamine, fatigue toxins....we're ambulatory chemical manufactories.  
> 'Splains a lot, donnit?

Doesn't explain the "temporarily" in "I must have gone temporarily mad!"
I don't remember any "temporarily".  I'm certainly not doing anything
"temporarily".  What's that good for, "temporarily"?


Corinna

[Dave Korn-6]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 27 15:28, Warren Young wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> "My god, this is all gibberish! I must have
>>>> gone temporarily madDER!".
                         ^^^

>>>>
>>>> Happened to me just the other night.  :-P
>>> Ah, so it isn't just me.
>> We all program on drugs.  Caffeine, obviously, but also serotonin,  
>> dopamine, fatigue toxins....we're ambulatory chemical manufactories.  
>> 'Splains a lot, donnit?
>
> Doesn't explain the "temporarily" in "I must have gone temporarily mad!"
> I don't remember any "temporarily".  I'm certainly not doing anything
> "temporarily".  What's that good for, "temporarily"?
>
>
> Corinna

  FTFY!

    cheers,
      DaveK