Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:52:47 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> [...] > > When designing APIs it is of utmost importance how average > developers intuitively *think* it works - not how the designer > thinks it should work ... Any severe mismatch between the two > is a serious design FAIL that should not be repeated in new > code.
Btw., I'm not picking on you, in the last 15 years I have added my own sad share of brown paperbag API mis-designs to the Linux kernel - most [but not all] of which could fortunately be fixed within the kernel.
Thanks,
Ingo
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