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, 28 May 2002 16:37:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 16:37:16 -0400 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:56220 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 16:37:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 15:27:03 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020527152703.A234@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <1022381475.11811.72.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1022441858.11811.127.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > isn't really up to it. Right now we are building cathedrals in the same > way as a medaeival master mason, by intutition, experience, and testing. > We have no more idea than they do if any given edifice will come > crashing down (as several large medaeival ones indeed did). Well, inability to prove cathedral stability did not stop those people from building them, and inability to prove stability of Linx does not stop people from using it, too. (I've seen machine for monitoring patients build from "not to use in life-support" chips and running linux.) Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.