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"As for Linus, I think he gets somewhat misrepresented in many places." He's told multiple people he wishes they were retroactively aborted. I don't know of ma

• digi_owl 11y ago
  That was a general exclamation after finding out that Debian had patches that read data at 1 byte (yes byte, not kilobyte, not megabyte, byte) at a time (complete with round trips through kernel/user space context switches between each read). It was never directed at anyone by name, nor did anyone ever go look for who had put in the patches. And it was after what seemed to have been a frustrating bug hunt related to reports of poor performance in that subsystem.
  • s73v3r 11y ago
    He's said it multiple times, and has pointed it at specific people. It is absolutely not an acceptable thing to say on something as public as the Linux Kernel mailing list. Not to mention that when others see him do that, they believe it gives them free range to do the same thing.