Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 12:09:42 EST




On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler
> > might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is
>
> Pedant: valid. Almost all optimizations are legal, nobody has yet written
> laws about compilers. Sorry but I'm forever fixing misuse of the word
> "illegal" in printks, docs and the like and it gets annoying after a bit.

Heh.

When I'm ruler of the universe, it *will* be illegal. I'm just getting a
bit ahead of myself.

Linus
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