Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:50:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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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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