Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6

[Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>]

> 
>    From: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
>    Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:32:35 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> BTW, I've sed s/vger.rutgers.edu/vger.redhat.com/
> 
>    Wait! You are saying you have a scheme that will prevent writers 
>    from writing buggy code that happens to work only on 32Mb i386 ...
>    Go ahead, I am all ears :-)
> 
> I understand your point, but please understand mine.
> 
> One might laugh, but after I read and really considered some of the
> points made by the author of "Writing Solid Code" in that book, I
> realized that one of my jobs as someone creating an API is that I
> should be trying as hard as possible to design it such that it is next
> to impossible to misuse it.

Unfortunately, where there's a will to misuse, there usually is a way :-(

And that's doubly hard to accept after all the hard work that gets into
creating the API ...

Kanoj
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