From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200904232116.10769.j6t@kdbg.org> <7vbpqkznjs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49F3588A.4000707@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Gaber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 25 20:49:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lxmw8-000459-LZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:49:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753720AbZDYSqW (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:46:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753177AbZDYSqW (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:46:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60667 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751432AbZDYSqV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:46:21 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n3PIhBbQ011337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:43:47 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n3PIhAfw007097; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:43:10 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <49F3588A.4000707@gmx.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.956 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Gaber wrote: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF Yeah, and people thought "pascal" was a good language because it didn't contain "break" statements to break out of loops, or "return" statements to break out of functions early. Too bad. They were wrong. Linus