On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:31:52PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > Yes, I thought you might say that. Technically there's a possibility that > it'll rain for a week solid in Wales and your house will be washed away. You've never been here have you. It regularly does that > Presumably you don't have a wall of sandbags permenantly in place to > guard against this? Of course, there are no guarantees it Folks in other bits of town do 8) > We could attempt to anticipate every potential possibility allowed under > every standard implemented by the kernel, and then code around them. But > then we'd spend all our time writing code that didn't actually do anything > for the users, instead of making stuff work. Agreed. I know why code takes shortcuts or avoids nasties like that. I write code that does just the same, but at the end of the day its that code which is buggy.
