linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken



On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Given the assumptions in emacs are wrong, low_latency fixes the real
> world cases and we are standards compliant perhaps we are trying too
> hard ?

Alan, I really don't understand why you seem to argue _for_ bad code, and 
not just fixing it. You seem to think that it's ok to leave stuff in 
buffers and ignore it, just because the other end might have exited. 

That seems disingenious and stupid. Why argue for crap?

		Linus
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