Re: Starting point

[Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>]

root <evpopkov@carry.neonet.lv> wrote:
>  Of course,  in this case  roadmap can be  more complicated, but  it's well
> worth it IMHO.  I believe it's easier and more  consistent to take signal.c
> from every kernel  we have at our  disposal and dissect it to  see how it's
> written, to study  its evolution and to identify possible  problems by code
> comparison.

that's what you usually do in a code audit - take an old version and go
from there, trying to understand the reason behind every change.

the only problem with that approach is that for a program as complex as the
Linux kernel, it'll take a looong time.


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