Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752879AbaLCOIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:08:47 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f170.google.com ([209.85.192.170]:58279 "EHLO mail-pd0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752163AbaLCOIq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:08:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141203104144.GA7495@localhost.localdomain> References: <1417494919-4577-1-git-send-email-oakad@yahoo.com> <1417494919-4577-2-git-send-email-oakad@yahoo.com> <20141202170037.GG29748@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1417589446.5303.121.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <20141203080800.GB5193@localhost.localdomain> <20141203104144.GA7495@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:08:45 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: introduce sendfd() syscall From: Alex Dubov To: Richard Cochran Cc: Richard Weinberger , Eric Dumazet , Al Viro , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Alex Dubov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > In any case, I find it hard to believe that the traditional method is > really so bad. The explanation of why this new way is needed boils > down to: "unix programming is so hard to get right." Surely, this can be said about any new feature proposed. Why do we need this new thing called wheel? We lived 50k years without it just fine! It all boils down to: "walking with legs is so hard to get right". :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/