From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:36:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:36:00 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:57615 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:35:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEE4ECB.5070603@evision-ventures.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:31:39 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Jan Kara , Nathan Scott , Linus Torvalds , OGAWA Hirofumi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Quota patches In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Alan Cox napisa?: >>If we can do it for quota - we could possible remove the >>IPC_OLD variant away as well. It's looong overdue by now, >>becouse the IPC_OLD was not standard conformant anyway. >> >>I would be really really glad to do it iff ACK-ed. > > > More code that takes almost no space, ensures old systems still work and > old XFree86 still runs on new kernels. Why remove it ? It is an illusion to think that you can actually run *that old* a.out binaries on a modern kernel I think. BTW. (almost no space) * (many times) == huge number. > If you want to design a mathematically elegant and small ultra clean OS go > do it. Linux however has to work in the real world not in the happy clueless > world of pure mathematical elegance