> On Mon Apr 18 08:58:15 EDT 2011, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> > the latest proud addition, open_by_handle(). >> >> You're joking, right?! > > http://lwn.net/Articles/375888/ > > now scheduled for 2.6.39, http://lwn.net/Articles/435215/ in > the kernel release status.
It was a rhetorical question :-) One of these days they'll need installation checkboxes (a) to choose optional features and (b) to choose different alternative features that may clash with each other. One will need a university degree in Linuxology to make educated decisions. When will natural selection start to apply to Linux distributions? ++L