linux-kernel - Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710030908310.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:09:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9
 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)



On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler 
> > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is 
> 
> Pedant: valid. Almost all optimizations are legal, nobody has yet written
> laws about compilers. Sorry but I'm forever fixing misuse of the word
> "illegal" in printks, docs and the like and it gets annoying after a bit.

Heh.

When I'm ruler of the universe, it *will* be illegal. I'm just getting a 
bit ahead of myself.

			Linus
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