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Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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ty den 25.01.2005 Klokka 17:53 (+0100) skreiv Andreas Gruenbacher:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:52, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > So here's an iconoclastic question or two:
> > 
> >   Why can't clients sort the list in userland, before they call down to
> > the kernel?
> 
> Tell that to Sun Microsystems.

Whatever Sun chooses to do or not do changes nothing to the question of
why our client would want to do a quicksort in the kernel.

Cheers,
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

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