Re: New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

[Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-04-04, walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>> :Matthew Dillon wrote:
>> :>     The recent PIPE work adapted from Alan Cox's work in FreeBSD-5 has really
>> :>     lit a fire under my seat.  It's amazing how such a simple concept can
>> :
>> :I've always wondered: is it the same Alan Cox "of linux"?
>> 
>>     No, it's a different Alan Cox.
>
> Are you *really* sure about this?  (April Fools is over  ;o)
>
> How could there be two such nerd/geniuses with the same name?  It's
> like saying 'no, it's not the same Bill Gates...'

Every OS project should have an Alan Cox.

Kris