linux-kernel - Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"

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Message-Id: <20071114.173354.218572335.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:33:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	russ@...gant-software.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"

From: Russell Leighton <russ@...gant-software.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:21:04 -0500

> > At the risk of being egocentric, the cyclic subsystem (which is
> > executed at least 100 times per second on every Solaris system)
> > had its last substantial fix over six years ago, and its last fix
> > of any flavor over three years ago:

Yeah, if you develop at the glacial pace Solaris does, don't add any
features to cyclics or work on scalability improvment, sure it can be
bug free and untouched for 6 years.

I think all of this talk of perfect code is just trolling by the
Solaris folks.
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