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It seems he calmed down a little afterwards and answered without all that rage and curse words, clearly he's upset but i don't imagine him going postal anymore:
by buster 14y ago
It seems he calmed down a little afterwards and answered without all that rage and curse words, clearly he's upset but i don't imagine him going postal anymore:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414130 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414130
- keithpeter 14y ago> But since applications *do* care, and since we *do* have > multiple error values, we stick to the old ones, unless > there are some *very* good reasons not to. Perhaps the original email could have been about 10 lines long with the quote above being the main point? My point is: is it worth attempting to convey anger in a text only medium? I can give as good as I get in a good old shouting match f2f. My thing is waving my arms about. Other colleagues find that funny and start laughing. Then I realise, and we all calm down, then we find a way out of the problem. I find it slightly strange trying to do that in a text only medium.
- buster 14y agoWell, i like to argue about things i am passionate about too. With friends, with colleagues, with my boss. But i try to reason with them. I don't just tell them to "shut the fuck up".
- keithpeter 14y agoYes, good point, but I think Torvalds was reminding the unfortunate developer of the need not to break user space applications. I can see why that is very important. But still...