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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] correcting old failures, and NJ vs MA
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:16:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC411DA.3B191015@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87het8uxcl.fsf@becket.becket.net>

"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> People have noted (quite rightly) that the kernel code for moving
> directories is tricky and easy to get wrong and complex.  But what
> they haven't noted is that the user-space solution is even more tricky
> (if you expect it to solve the same problems), and even easier to get
> wrong, and even more complex.

A user mode bug won't crash the machine.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 17:43 anothy
2001-10-10  8:56 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10  9:16   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-10-11  4:27   ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-11  9:11     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 21:44 forsyth
2001-10-09 21:51 bwc
2001-10-10 13:04 presotto
2001-10-11  9:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-11 14:29   ` david presotto
2001-10-11 15:26     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-11 15:54       ` andrey mirtchovski
2001-10-11 11:39 forsyth

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