Re: Quota patches

Alan Cox
2002-05-24T15:30:34Z

> 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 ?

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