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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
Date: 23 Jun 2007 19:38:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y7iak1vp.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070623164608.05dc5c30@the-village.bc.nu

>>>>> "AC" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

AC> A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel

The clone() call and the efficient 1:1 threading it brought was
definitely innovative. None of the other Unices had anything similar.

splice() is innovative as well, even though it took 10 years from
concept to implementation...


/Benny



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-23 12:17 How innovative is Linux? Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 15:22   ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 15:46     ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 16:12       ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:19         ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 16:42           ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:54             ` Matthew Jacob
2007-06-23 17:30             ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 17:49               ` Diego Calleja
2007-06-23 19:23           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 21:02             ` Al Viro
2007-06-23 22:13               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 18:12         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-23 19:44           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 17:38       ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2007-06-23 19:18       ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-23 18:36         ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-24  4:31           ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-23 22:02       ` Carlo Wood
2007-06-23 22:16         ` David Kane
     [not found]         ` <345c044f0706231513u46d870es6539bdf5797b305b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-23 22:27           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-25  9:39             ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-06-25 22:57         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-24 21:36       ` Nikita Danilov
2007-06-23 18:02     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 18:17       ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 17:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-23 18:15   ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 18:54     ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 19:06       ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 23:15         ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-25 15:12     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-25 15:15       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 16:37         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-25 16:42           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 17:51             ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-26 12:26 ` Helge Hafting
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-23 17:43 Al Boldi

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