Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:52:57 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 11:02 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > The kernel does this all the time. We have syscalls that may > > extend the data structure. [...] > > That is not true *AT ALL* in such an unqualified manner. Steve, > stop being stupid.
OK, Ingo I think we had a little miscommunication here.
I forgot what I originally wrote, and you cut off too much in your reply. What I originally said:
"The kernel does this all the time. We have syscalls that may extend the data structure. This is a common practice. Any app that depends on a data structure remaining the same size for no good reason is broken by design."
If you took the "Any app that depends on a data structure remaining the same size for no good reason is broken by design" was suppose to mean, any app that depends on syscall data structures is broken by design, I would agree, that statement is stupid. I didn't write that well, as my thought process switched back to reading tracepoints and wasn't meant to be about syscalls there. I didn't articulate that properly.
As you can tell, I was a little upset at being called stupid this morning. If you took that statement to mean about syscalls, I understand your calling me stupid, and I apologize for being a bit snippy. I like to keep LKML discussions technical and not something for name calling.
-- Steve
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