From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kanoj Sarcar Message-Id: <200008172000.NAA87506@google.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:00:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200008171930.MAA23963@pizda.ninka.net> from "David S. Miller" at Aug 17, 2000 12:30:42 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: sct@redhat.com, roman@augan.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-ID: > > From: Kanoj Sarcar > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/