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Linus merges XFS

Posted Sep 17, 2002 1:05 UTC (Tue) by Schneelocke (guest, #3535)
Parent article: Linus merges XFS

This is good news indeed. Now if only he'd merge kdb as well...

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Linus merges XFS

Posted Sep 17, 2002 14:17 UTC (Tue) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

> This is good news indeed. Now if only he'd merge kdb as well...

Linus has a well stated opinion of NOT liking debuggers. He
feels they encourage developers to work around a problem rather
than fixing the root cause. Not to mention that the appeal of
kdb is very very small (kernel developers only). I'd be extremely
surprised if kdb or any other debugger ever made it into the kernel.