Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

HAHAHAHHAAAA!!!! My evil scheme is working! I post some sub-optimal code, and have others do the nasty work for me!!!!

Oh, did I just say that out loud?

Not only that, I will also sue you for my patent on that algorithm.

+	/*
+	 * The pifutex has an owner, make sure it's us, if not complain
+	 * to userspace.
+	 * FIXME_LATER: handle this gracefully
+	 */
+	pid = curval & FUTEX_TID_MASK;
+	if (pid && pid != task_pid_vnr(current))
+		return -EMORON;

-- Darren "graceful" Hart (thanks to Bert Wesarg)

Yup, there's lots of crappy code in the tree, and it is regrettable that maintainers continue to go ahead and merge that crappy code.

There's no easy fix for this - you need to be aware of what is right and what is wrong, but you cannot look at existing code to determine this.

-- Andrew Morton

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Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 6, 2009 2:44 UTC (Fri) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link]

It's usually too close to call, but in context with recent events and all, Linus's is the clear winner here. Again.