Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 26 May 2002 03:51:15 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 21:30, Daniel Phillips wrote: > A short time ago I made my living by programming large factory machines that > can kill people in an instant. I would have loved to use Linux, but it was > not ready at the time. As long as core developers continue to ignore the > need for realtime capability in the kernel itself - as opposed to waving hands
This has nothing to do with real time. The capacity of computer science to formally validate a system (and if it can kill people it should be formally proven in something like Z) is not sufficient for a system so complex. Such a device needs a tiny verifiable kernel core.
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