Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754591AbZG1Pto (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:49:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754546AbZG1Pto (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:49:44 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42457 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754535AbZG1Ptn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:49:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ray Lee , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken In-Reply-To: <20090728112203.7b70adba@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20090725163251.50e6f546@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <87bpn7mzli.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727115723.1e8de60e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <873a8iqqgv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727142303.41096bf5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <877hxujkuv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727145805.690afe5d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <87fxci6ub9.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727161424.GA4233@skywalker> <20090727174252.2d987830@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090727171213.GB4233@skywalker> <87skgikjr8.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727222010.1a5efb7b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <87r5w19xsb.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090728112203.7b70adba@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 20 On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > Given the assumptions in emacs are wrong, low_latency fixes the real > world cases and we are standards compliant perhaps we are trying too > hard ? Alan, I really don't understand why you seem to argue _for_ bad code, and not just fixing it. You seem to think that it's ok to leave stuff in buffers and ignore it, just because the other end might have exited. That seems disingenious and stupid. Why argue for crap? Linus -- 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/