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From: "Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Roland McGrath" <roland@redhat.com>,
"Prasanna S Panchamukhi" <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
"Kernel development list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:08:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c5339f0702071408g70fd3cbcvc8039245bbd99bb7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0702071356580.4502-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On 2/7/07, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I wonder where this convention of using lower numbers to indicate higher
> priorities comes from... It seems to be quite prevalent even though it's
> obviously backwards.
I agree but at least in the case of 'nice' it works in the sense that
the value increases with increasing niceness. Done the other way,
they would have to call it 'mean,' then someone would wonder why 'mean
10 20' prints 'No such file or directory' instead of '15'...
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-07 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070207025008.1B11118005D@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2007-02-07 19:22 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-07 22:08 ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2007-02-09 10:21 ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-09 15:54 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-09 23:31 ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-10 4:32 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-18 3:03 ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-21 20:35 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-22 11:43 ` S. P. Prasanna
2007-02-23 2:19 ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-23 16:55 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-24 0:08 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-02 17:19 ` [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch) Alan Stern
2007-03-05 7:01 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-05 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-05 16:16 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-05 16:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-05 22:04 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-05 17:25 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-06 3:13 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-06 15:23 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-07 3:49 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-07 19:11 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 6:52 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-09 18:40 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-13 8:00 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-13 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-13 18:56 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-14 3:00 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-14 19:11 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-28 21:39 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-29 21:35 ` Alan Stern
2007-04-13 21:09 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-11 15:25 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-13 10:39 ` Roland McGrath
2007-05-14 15:42 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-14 21:25 ` Roland McGrath
2007-05-16 19:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-23 8:47 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-01 19:39 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-14 6:48 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-19 20:35 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-25 10:52 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-25 15:36 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-26 20:49 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-27 3:26 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-27 21:04 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-29 3:00 ` Alan Stern
2007-07-11 6:59 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-28 3:02 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-25 11:32 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-25 15:37 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-25 20:51 ` Alan Stern
2007-06-26 18:17 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-27 2:43 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-17 20:39 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-16 21:07 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-22 19:44 ` Alan Stern
[not found] <20070206042153.66AB418005D@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2007-02-06 19:58 ` [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers Alan Stern
2007-02-07 2:56 ` Roland McGrath
2007-01-16 16:55 Alan Stern
2007-01-16 23:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-17 16:33 ` Alan Stern
2007-01-17 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-17 16:17 ` Alan Stern
2007-01-18 0:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-18 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-18 15:37 ` Alan Stern
2007-01-18 22:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 4:25 ` Roland McGrath
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