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Linus on the BK withdrawalLinus on the BK withdrawalPosted Apr 7, 2005 22:06 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462)In reply to: Linus on the BK withdrawal by kasperd Parent article: Linus on the BK withdrawal I can't really follow you here, I'm afraid. Maybe it's because I'm much too lazy to reverse engineer a program, I'd much rather spend my time trying to reverse engineer the programmer who wrote the program, for instance, and start from there (not that I am particularly good at it ;-). Or is that what you call "reverse engineering heuristics"? You seem to suggest that it can't be that hard to write a non-trivial piece of software. I'm quite sure any kernel hacker would agree with me that, looking at random bits and pieces of an OS kernel, none would look too complicated. The general operation of an OS kernel is no rocket science either. Getting everything right all the time, however, that's much more like black magic. (Funnily enough, in physics the exact same problem is related to "degrees of freedom". The similarity doesn't end there, but I won't bore you with that. ;-) (The term "inner magic", by the way, is not Larry's, as far as I know, if that is of some importance to you.)
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