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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:31:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040331213143.GC20693@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040331182039.GA29397@outpost.ds9a.nl>

bert hubert wrote:
> > connection.  Whoever this is has been cloning the linux 2.6 (aka 2.5)
> > tree on bkbits so slowly that the tree is locked for days and can't
> > be updated.  About once a day I go kill the clone because stracing it
> 
> RCU for BitKeeper trees? :-)

Last I heard, RCU is patented by IBM, with permission to use it in GPL
programs (maybe limited to version 2 of the GPL?), so that Linux can use it.

So BitKeeper might not be able to use the technique, if the claims of the
patent are sufficiently broad (I haven't read it and don't intend to).

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-31 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29  1:08 who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz? Larry McVoy
2004-03-29  7:16 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29 13:32 ` Tomasz Rola
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1040329151755.5234B-100000@pioneer.space.nem esis.pl>
2004-03-29 16:01     ` Jeff Woods
2004-03-29 16:10       ` Tomasz Rola
2004-03-30 19:50 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-31 18:20 ` bert hubert
2004-03-31 21:31   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-03-31 21:45     ` bert hubert
2004-04-01 13:39       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-01 17:26         ` Larry McVoy
2004-04-01  6:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-31 13:15 Martijn Kuipers

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