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

[Ed Vance]

On Sun, May 26, 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> That helps Linux in the sense that part of the strategy is 
> to build a system that is shared cost and testing over many 
> vendors and many products, but it doesn't alter the basic 
> problem that computer science isn't really up to it. Right 
> now we are building cathedrals in the same way as a mediaeval 
> master mason, by intuition, 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).

It's another reason to pray when in a cathedral. :)

The tallest cathedrals that fell were usually doomed by soil instability
rather than design of the cathedral itself. Kind of like running Linux on a
bargain PC ...

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