Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 12:27:18 EST


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:03, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ty den 25.01.2005 Klokka 17:53 (+0100) skreiv Andreas Gruenbacher:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:52, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > So here's an iconoclastic question or two:
> > >
> > > Why can't clients sort the list in userland, before they call down to
> > > the kernel?
> >
> > Tell that to Sun Microsystems.
>
> Whatever Sun chooses to do or not do changes nothing to the question of
> why our client would want to do a quicksort in the kernel.

Well, it determines what we must accept, both on the server side and the
client side.

Cheers,
--
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH

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