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On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> How is what Linus left more broken?

It's not. If anything, we should probably remove even more.

I don't see what the problem was with just requiring the right damn size.  
User mode can trivially get the size by asking for it. But if it can't be
bothered, then Andi's code certainly just made things worse.

		Linus