Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 07:53:48 +0200 |
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On Saturday 25 May 2002 06:27, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > You know what? I don't care. If the RTAI people are trying to make it easy > > for non-GPL module people, I have absolutely zero interest. > > [ Clarification: here "module" is not just "the thing you insert with > insmod". In RTAI it's a mlock'ed user-level thing that has higher > priority than the kernel, and can thus trivially crash the system. > Whether it runs in CPL0 or CPL3 is immaterial at that point - a crash is > a crash, and I'm not interested in systems where I cannot debug the > thing that caused it ]
This issue is easily dealt with by requiring root for the rt_task_init call.
As for debugging the thing, Linus doth protest too much.
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