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SubjectRe: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!?

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:

> > > I would have to say for the most part, but I did find some printk's that had
> > > "SHIT:" in them =)
> >
> > if you check out the context of those printk's than you'll see that they
> > 'never happen'. And we are allowed to 'never printk profanities', arent
> > we? ;)
>
> Well, if they're never going to happen, why are there printk's
> to tell you it happened? :) [...]

because Linux sometimes even makes the impossible become possible ;)
Seriously, those are debugging messages, 'not possible' theoretically, but
a hardware (or software) bug can trigger it. (i dont think censors want to
ban PCs altogether just because it's theoretically possible to have a
hardware bug that accidentally prints 'shit' on the screen) This whole
nice piece of australian legislature clearly defies common logic.

-- mingo


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