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

yodaiken
2002-05-26T04:28:35Z

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:20:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I certainly personally agree with you, but the hard-liners don't.
> Remember: it took the hard-RT community a long time to accept radical new
> things like CPU caches, and some of them _still_ like the ability to lock
> down cachelines..

I recently heard a gentleman from Boeing Civil Aviation speak on how they
are considering what to do now that their stock of static memory, no-OO,
cacheless 68Ks are dwindling and their "tested to death tiny subset of ADA"
has no compiler vendors.

It's an interesting problem at least to some of us.

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