Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:59:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Nathan Scott wrote: > > Al had several (additional) issues with the original patch, but I > think we progressively worked through them - Al stopped suggesting > changes at one point anyway, and the level of abuse died away ;), > so I guess he became more satisfied with them.
I think you can safely assume that if Al doesn't curse you to hell, he can be considered happy.
> Not much point apportioning blame - its as much my fault - I > hadn't heard back from you at all since day 1, so figured you > were just not interested in this stuff, so I stopped sending.
Basically, you should always consider email to me to be a unreliable medium, with no explicit congestion control. So think of an email like a TCP packet, with exponential backoff - except the times are different (in TCP, the initial timeout is three seconds, and the max timeout is 2 minutes. In "Linus-lossy-network" it makes sense to use different default and maximum values ;)
Linus
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