Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:33:54 -0800 (PST)
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To: russ@elegant-software.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Russell Leighton <russ@elegant-software.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:21:04 -0500

> > At the risk of being egocentric, the cyclic subsystem (which is
> > executed at least 100 times per second on every Solaris system)
> > had its last substantial fix over six years ago, and its last fix
> > of any flavor over three years ago:

Yeah, if you develop at the glacial pace Solaris does, don't add any
features to cyclics or work on scalability improvment, sure it can be
bug free and untouched for 6 years.

I think all of this talk of perfect code is just trolling by the
Solaris folks.
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