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On 05/02/2014 11:03 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:45:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>  > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:49 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

[...]

>  > > It's this "not used by every user" code that tends to scare me, because
>  > > it's written with 1-2 well behaved bits of userspace in mind, which
>  > > usually means "has so many unchecked corner cases it's not even funny"
>  > [...]
>  > 
>  > Since Michael often seems to be the one testing those corner cases while
>  > writing documentation, it seems like you're getting back to the old
>  > issue of whether lack of documentation should be a blocker for adding
>  > new system calls.
> 
> That, and test cases.

Form my point of view, test cases and documentation go hand in glove 
(see my last mail).

Hmmm -- this almost starts to smell like a topic to revisit
at Ksummit.

Thanks,

Michael


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