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

Pavel Machek
2002-05-28T20:37:17Z

Hi!

> isn't really up to it. Right now we are building cathedrals in the same
> way as a medaeival master mason, by intutition, 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).

Well, inability to prove cathedral stability did not stop those people
from building them, and inability to prove stability of Linx does not
stop people from using it, too. (I've seen machine for monitoring patients
build from "not to use in life-support" chips and running linux.)
Pavel

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