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

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 24 May 2002 21:27:08 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> You know what? I don't care. If the RTAI people are trying to make it easy
> for non-GPL module people, I have absolutely zero interest.

[ Clarification: here "module" is not just "the thing you insert with
insmod". In RTAI it's a mlock'ed user-level thing that has higher
priority than the kernel, and can thus trivially crash the system.
Whether it runs in CPL0 or CPL3 is immaterial at that point - a crash is
a crash, and I'm not interested in systems where I cannot debug the
thing that caused it ]

Linus

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