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

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Sun, 26 May 2002 07:44:28 +0200

On Sunday 26 May 2002 02:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And once you lack kernel services, from a programming standpoint it
> shouldn't really matter whether it's a kernel module or not.

You're way underestimating the importance of memory protection, both for
debugging and for those that-can-never-happen-but-it-did system recovery
situations.

-- 
Daniel
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