Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

Larry McVoy
2002-05-25T04:25:34Z

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:08:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It all tends to boil down to a device driver in the end, and the amount of
> support you're willing to give it. Soft realtime can handle the rest.
>
> Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like
> user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just
> stupid.

Amen to that.
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