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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:10:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:11:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I've told you a number of times that I'd like to see the preliminary
> > implementation publicly discussed and some uses outside of private
> > companies that I have no insight into..
>
> Well, we've got serious chicken and egg problems then.

Why?

I'd rather have people playing around with new system calls and _test_
them, and then have to recompile their apps if the system calls move
later, than introduce new system calls that haven't gotten any public
testing at all..

		Linus

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