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

Daniel Phillips
2002-05-26T05:45:12Z

On Sunday 26 May 2002 02:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And once you lack kernel services, from a programming standpoint it
> shouldn't really matter whether it's a kernel module or not.

You're way underestimating the importance of memory protection, both for
debugging and for those that-can-never-happen-but-it-did system recovery
situations.

--
Daniel