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FromKeith Owens <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
DateTue, 20 Dec 2005 10:46:14 +1100
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:00:09 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>The Mars Pathfinder is just about the worst case "real system", and if I
>recall correctly, the reason it was able to continue was _not_ because it
>handled priority inversion, but because it reset itself every 24 hours or
>something like that, and had debugging facilities..
>...
>So put a watchdog on your critical systems, and make sure you can debug
>them. Especially if they're on Mars.

Who are you and what have you done with the real[1]

  Linus "I'm a sick and twisted person, and I trust people who write code
  without debuggers a lot more than I trust those who don't" Torvalds :-)

[1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9510/0103.html

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