From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:21:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:20:55 -0400 Received: from marine.sonic.net ([208.201.224.37]:33084 "HELO marine.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:20:50 -0400 X-envelope-info: Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:20:37 -0700 From: Mike Castle To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Dan Kegel , ognen@gene.pbi.nrc.ca, laughing@shared-source.org Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) Message-ID: <20010619102037.A6778@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dan Kegel , ognen@gene.pbi.nrc.ca, laughing@shared-source.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010619090956.R3089@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Another one that I can't believe I forgot is from Rob Pike: > > "If you think you need threads then your processes are too fat" Pike also to have said, "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell bad." Also, I could never actually find the "too fat" quote anywhere. Best I could find was one of Pike's papers on the plan9 site. Best that I can tell is that both of these quotes are Urban Legends. mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc