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I personally thought that this opinion is applicable to not only file systems but all ‘base’ systems that can be built upon. Hence the omission of the ‘filesys

I personally thought that this opinion is applicable to not only file systems but all ‘base’ systems that can be built upon. Hence the omission of the ‘filesystem’ word. But if most people think that this doesn’t apply outside of FS, I have the will to change the title :-)

reitzensteinm 7y ago
It applies broadly to people building APIs, but your title reads as though Linus is giving general coding advice, saying not to be fussy about code quality but focus on correctness. At least one comment here is replying to that notion.