Re: Linux threads -- as seen in NT Magazine

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
10 Dec 1998 22:45:41 GMT


Followup to: <199812091903.QAA10281@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
By author: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) said:
> > "Scott Doty" at Dec 7, 98 02:27:26 pm said:
> > > My take on this: the author was unaware of clone(2), or its
> > > use by the POSIX threads implementation in glibc 2.
>
> > Unaware or deliberately misleading ?
>
> My favorite quote (sorry I misplaced the author and exact wording) is
> something like "Don't assume bad faith were plain stupidity would explain."

"Never attribute to malice what is adequate explained by
incompetence?"

-hpa

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