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Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue
To: dek_ml@konerding.com (David Konerding)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:19:09 +0100 (BST)
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> It's a bug in Linux 2.4.2, fixed in later versions.  Regression/quality control
> testing would
> have caught this, but the developers usually just break things and wait for people
> to complain
> as their "Regression" testers.

Hardly. We knew it was broken since well before 2.4.0. It just got a little
interesting to fix.
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