Intention vs. Implementation
Apr. 28th, 2008 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The kernel.org site: "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance" - the "What is Linux?" section.
Andrew Morton, LKML: "I don't know how important all this is, really - we've had this bug for ever and presumably we've already trained everyone to work around it", "... the "standard" is so vague as to be useless" - discussing the bug #2645 (msync() does not update the st_mtime and st_ctime fields).
Andrew Morton, LKML: "I don't know how important all this is, really - we've had this bug for ever and presumably we've already trained everyone to work around it", "... the "standard" is so vague as to be useless" - discussing the bug #2645 (msync() does not update the st_mtime and st_ctime fields).