I totally agree that odds is really really small. That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if it happen after all.
It is the little peace of mind to know for sure that did not happen. I am just paranoid. Chris On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:23:52PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Some thing like the following patch, may be turn off able. > > Take out an old envelope and compute on it the odds of this > happening. > > Say we have 10,000 kernel hackers, each producing one > new file every minute, for 100 hours a week. And we've > cloned a small army of Andrew Morton's to integrate > the resulting tsunamai of patches. And Linus is well > cared for in the state funny farm. > > What is the probability that this check will fire even > once, between now and 10 billion years from now, when > the Sun has become a red giant destroying all life on > planet Earth? > > -- > I won't rest till it's the best ... > Programmer, Linux Scalability > Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, > 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
