Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Credentials test patch |
| |
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, David Howells wrote: > > > Why is it trying to make it look like a variable? > > Like 'current' for instance?
"current" has solid *historical* reasons for being that way.
Namely: it actually *was* a variable. That worked fine for UP. It got changed much much later.
Also, even in modern times, "current" is optimized to hell and back, and is often as cheap (or cheaper than) a global variable, so there is also no subtle performance question.
So using "current" as an excuse is not really valid. AT ALL.
Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |