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

Ed Vance
2002-05-30T22:37:40Z

On Sun, May 26, 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> That helps Linux in the sense that part of the strategy is
> to build a system that is shared cost and testing over many
> vendors and many products, but it doesn't alter the basic
> problem that computer science isn't really up to it. Right
> now we are building cathedrals in the same way as a mediaeval
> master mason, by intuition, experience, and testing. We have
> no more idea than they do if any given edifice will come
> crashing down (as several large medaeival ones indeed did).

It's another reason to pray when in a cathedral. :)

The tallest cathedrals that fell were usually doomed by soil instability
rather than design of the cathedral itself. Kind of like running Linux on a
bargain PC ...

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