Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756140AbXJCQZr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:25:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbXJCQZj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:25:39 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:45376 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751241AbXJCQZi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:25:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:25:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , Alexander Viro , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20071003084607.GC32218@elte.hu> <20071003165128.46e232ab@the-village.bc.nu> 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: 863 Lines: 22 On Oct 3 2007 09:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler >> > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is >> >> Pedant: valid. Almost all optimizations are legal, nobody has yet written >> laws about compilers. Sorry but I'm forever fixing misuse of the word >> "illegal" in printks, docs and the like and it gets annoying after a bit. > >Heh. > >When I'm ruler of the universe, it *will* be illegal. I'm just getting a >bit ahead of myself. Any time frame when that will happen? - 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/