Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:51:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:50:54 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:53253 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:50:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:50:36 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Benjamin LaHaise , Alan Cox , Davide Libenzi , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org 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 On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that > exclusive 0.1%" mentality. Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ? (is there _any_ use for sys_readahead() ? at all ?) cheers, Rik -- Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/