Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751124AbVJaLsZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:48:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751132AbVJaLsZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:48:25 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:6340 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbVJaLsZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:48:25 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:45:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051029182228.GA14495@havoc.gtf.org> <7vpspmhxhz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200510310334.35597.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-138-251.37-151.net24.it User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 30 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:34:34 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 31 October 2005 03:13, David Lang wrote: >>> I was thinking about doing thatn in hidden input fields and >>> passing form back and forth. After all what real git bisect >>> keeps locally are one bad commit ID and bunch of good commit >>> IDs. >> >> if it's kept in a file or cookie then it can survive a reboot and other >> distractions (remember that this process can take days if the problem >> doesn't show up at boot). a cookie can hold a couple K worth of data, a >> file has no size limit. > > Actually, lots of Linux browsers these days treats all cookies as session > cookies for security reasons. So surviving a reboot still isn't guaranteed. > But it's possible. > > You can also have 'em bookmark a URL... Trac has a 'Session ID' key that stores something like a cookie, except that it's serverside. Something halfway a cookie and an actual login. The user can write down the session ID or just assign its own, and the re-enter the session ID and all things are restored to the settings he had chosen. Something like this, maybe? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta "I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart" --Linus van Pelt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/