At 11:51 PM 6/5/99 +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>It is not a genuine bug (as it only slows thong down instead of
>getting wrong results), but still a misfeature.
Well, it depends on how one defines "bug", I suppose :) In the
strictest sense you're correct, yet for real world use, particularly
in environments with high traffic, it's a killer.
>It is most likely an ancient quickfix for some execution path that
>failed to set the dirty mark when it should have.
Yep, I remember this from the earlier conversation, too.
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