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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