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The 3.8 kernel is out

The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Feb 21, 2013 20:47 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616)
In reply to: The 3.8 kernel is out by jimparis
Parent article: The 3.8 kernel is out

> Well, the bug in line 3 is a clear design error.

saying so doesn't make it so. prove it. getting a fix upstream would be fine. then we can move on to the remaining ones, there's quite a few more lines left in linux (nothing to say of the rest of the code we have out there ;).

> It should read "*/" and the comment should have ended there.

wrong, that line of code would also be buggy, since it's part of 'every single line', so you'd be replacing buggy code with buggy code. reductio ad absurdum, if you believe in his nutty theory, you'd have eliminate all code in existence to properly fix any bug.

>[...]let's move on to trying to understand the point nix was attempting to make[...]

he doesn't have one.


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The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Feb 25, 2013 16:38 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

he doesn't have one.
You are, as usual, wrong.

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