Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762383AbXFJHLQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:11:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760707AbXFJHLA (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:11:00 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:55756 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759806AbXFJHK7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:10:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:10:43 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Davide Libenzi , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Ulrich Drepper , Eric Dumazet , Kyle Moffett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 Message-ID: <20070610071043.GB6909@holomorphy.com> References: <46686810.6030805@redhat.com> <466880A4.3090908@redhat.com> <20070608120746.GD12687@thunk.org> <20070608140150.6f31672f@the-village.bc.nu> <18026.15766.574693.200636@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18027.39295.464374.371664@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18027.39295.464374.371664@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 15 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:26:07PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > If you don't think we should be bound by POSIX, then you are perfectly > free to go off and write your own research kernel with whatever > interface you want, and no programs available to run on it. :) This isn't fair to research kernels. Breaking applications is not an active area of research. -- wli - 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/