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Given your definition, and viewed from a high enough level, every feature or enhancement is a bug fix. I think nitpicking the wording (while an interesting phil
by nathanb 11y ago
Given your definition, and viewed from a high enough level, every feature or enhancement is a bug fix. I think nitpicking the wording (while an interesting philosophical discussion) detracts from the point of the article: an unnamed Google engineer waded into the Linux kernel code and made the web slightly better for many people.
- eru 11y agoI think it was actually multiple people.
- nuxi7 11y agoYou've hit on a fine point I often make about how the term "security bug" is used. I would call this a bug fix since someone has found what is probably an unintended behavior in the cubic algorithm. The cubic algorithm itself though would be a feature improving on the original tcp algorithm (nagle, if I remember right)
- merb 11y agoNo a feature or enhancement mostly introduces something new, like a new algorithm for cubic congestion control, which this patch of course doesn't to, it just fixes the old one. ;)