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SubjectRe: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25
>> O(1) sched may be a bad example ... how about the fact that mainline VM
>> is totally unstable? Witness, for instance, the buffer_head stuff. Fixes
>> for that have been around for ages.
>
> "totally unstable" being defined as: My computers don't crash, and my
> 100%-mainline test kernels pass various Cerberus/LTP/crashme runs.
>
> Of course, I am not totally focused on multi-million-dollar computers, so
> maybe my perspective is skewed... ;-)

Last time I checked, a 2x machine with 4Gb of RAM didn't cost millions of
dollars ;-)

> Fixes should be applied to 2.4-mainline, certainly. Anything else just
> wastes developer brain cycles and slows the move to 2.6.

Common vendor _features_ is maybe better done in a separate tree, I'd
accept ... I'm just frustrated with the current lack of commonality between
distros, I guess.

M.

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