Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S970356AbXFIAHw (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:07:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030458AbXFIAFR (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:05:17 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36801 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S969754AbXFIAFN (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:05:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:03:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Davide Libenzi cc: Ulrich Drepper , Al Viro , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Eric Dumazet , Kyle Moffett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <466864F8.2050903@cosmosbay.com> <46686810.6030805@redhat.com> <466880A4.3090908@redhat.com> <20070608120746.GD12687@thunk.org> <20070608140150.6f31672f@the-village.bc.nu> <20070608192652.4a291901@the-village.bc.nu> <4669A351.4010403@redhat.com> <20070608184650.GA4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4669A674.4080309@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 27 On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > You need things to be *repeatable* for debugging. No ifs, buts, or maybes > > about it. > > It all depends on how you use the file descriptor. Read what I wrote. "for debugging". If your code is bug-free, and does what you intend it to do, everything is fine. But you wouldn't be doing debugging then, would you? For debugging, it does _not_ depend on "how you use the file descriptor". The whole _point_ is that something does something wrong. Maybe you _intended_ to use the file descriptor some way, and the bug was that you didn't. Linus - 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/