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Re: RT and XFS

To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RT and XFS
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:08:35 +0100
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, Dave Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, greg@xxxxxxxxx, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>, Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> This reminds me of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt . That no one
> should really be dependent on a particular kernel API doing a particular
> thing. The kernel is play dough for the kernel hacker (as it should be),
> including kernel semaphores.
> 
> So we can change whatever we want, and make no excuses, as long as we
> fix the rest of the kernel to work with our change. That seems pretty
> sensible , because Linux should be an evolution. 

Daniel, get a fucking clue.  Read some CS 101 literature on what a semaphore
is defined to be.  If you want PI singing dancing blinking christmas tree
locking primites call them a mutex, but not a semaphore.


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