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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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
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