>>>>> "John" == John F Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:
    John> That kind of haphazard software ``design'' is why I run NetBSD, not
    John> Linux.  If I wanted "ship it, then fix it", I'd be running Windows.

  I didn't say don't design it: I said implement it incrementally.

    John> (I've spent much of the past 8 years fixing busted locking
    John> hierarchies in one multithreaded system or another.)

  Getting it right is hard, no questions about that. Getting it to work
in MP mode means that more of us might buy that second CPU, and so more
of us can work on SMP code.

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