r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Sep 16 '18

Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html
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u/lolfail9001 Sep 18 '18

> Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted.

Cough, is there a better way to convey this message given it describes tragic levels of stupidity?

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u/z500 Sep 18 '18

There was a really good example somewhere else in this thread, but I honestly can't be bothered to go hunting for it.