Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261614AbVDJVwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261616AbVDJVwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:52:14 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:2535 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261614AbVDJVwJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:52:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:42:53 -0400 From: Christopher Li To: Paul Jackson Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, pasky@ucw.cz, rddunlap@osdl.org, ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more git updates.. Message-ID: <20050410184253.GF13853@64m.dyndns.org> References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> <20050410122352.19890f6d.pj@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050410122352.19890f6d.pj@engr.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 36 I totally agree that odds is really really small. That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if it happen after all. It is the little peace of mind to know for sure that did not happen. I am just paranoid. Chris On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:23:52PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Some thing like the following patch, may be turn off able. > > Take out an old envelope and compute on it the odds of this > happening. > > Say we have 10,000 kernel hackers, each producing one > new file every minute, for 100 hours a week. And we've > cloned a small army of Andrew Morton's to integrate > the resulting tsunamai of patches. And Linus is well > cared for in the state funny farm. > > What is the probability that this check will fire even > once, between now and 10 billion years from now, when > the Sun has become a red giant destroying all life on > planet Earth? > > -- > I won't rest till it's the best ... > Programmer, Linux Scalability > Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/