On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:21:06PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> also moves forward a lot faster than glibc, and grows a lot. A bug in glibc
> means an application goes down or screws up, a bug in the kernel can mean
> masive data loss in no time at all.
Foolhardy as it may be, people do _use_ the operating system
to run important applications and
an "application goes down or screws up" can be quite serious.
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