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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] correcting old failures, and NJ vs MA
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:16:10 +0200
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"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.