On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 04:39:47 -0500, Stephen Lord wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 04:30, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:06 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> >Other changes in the XFS tree 2.4 2.4-ac 2.5
>> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >KDB - (7) - (7) - (7)
>> [...]
>> >(7) Not likely to go in ever. (political reasons)
>>
>> What are these "political reasons?"
>
>Linus does not believe in debuggers, lots of other people do,
>but not Linus. Search an archive of the kernel mailing list
>for the details on this.
I see.
Well, I have certain strong feelings about this (I do respect Linus for what he
did), but I don't utter them publicly because I probably WOULD provoke a
flamewar if I did.
Thanks for the info.
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