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[Ivan Voras]

Max Khon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:30:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:

>> Just a data point: many people were turned away from FreeBSD because a
>> few PHP releases did a double-free or malloc-inside-signal-handler
>> calls. Yes, GNU's malloc should have been stricter, but it's not funny
>> when your apache crashes with SIGABORT.
> 
> That's not a valid argument. PHP developers hate apache2 and threads. So what?

It's not a technically important argument, but nowadays if PHP doesn't
work on FreeBSD, it's considered to be FreeBSD's fault... (the "millions
of flies can't be wrong" argument).

(Just saying that it's not very useful to be overly strict).

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