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Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6
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> From: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:32:35 -0700 (PDT)
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> 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
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