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SubjectRe: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:46:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Nobody will expect the above to work, and everybody will agree that the
> above is a BUG if the read() call will actually follow the pointer.

I didn't say anything about read(). I said write(). Obviously it
wouldn't work for read()!

> Read my email. And read the last line: "psychology is important".

I did. I also know that if you give the world enough rope, someone
will hang themselves.

(Note that because I've thought a way of misusing this in the same
was as ioctl, you can bet your bottom dollar that other people will).

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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