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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Llu, 2004-11-29 at 23:23, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Alan: Would you mind explaining why this is not safe? If there's something 
> I'm missing I'd really like to know.

Wrong question. Prove it is safe.

Otherwise you are risking errors in critical devices (think backups) for
the sake of fixing an essentially irrelevant limitation.