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Re: Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

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Post by cesarb » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #3

cdot2 wrote: post #2

No part of that is really relevant to the code and it doesnt seem to have any relevance to the fact that it's being removed but it's still an interesting story

It's totally relevant, considering that the reason it's being removed is lack of maintenance.

IIRC, the lack of maintenance predated the murder; the development was focused on reiser4, basically abandoning reiser3, and for that reason there was a higher resistance against merging reiser4, since the kernel maintainers didn't want to risk it being merged and soon abandoned in favor of something else. It didn't help that, IIRC, reiser3 had some unusual locking, being one of the last parts of the kernel which depended on the unusual properties of the Big Kernel Lock.

Re: Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

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Post by WirelessGigabit » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

CharleFKane wrote: post #5

bena wrote: post #4

I like the Reiser story. It's one of the higher profile crimes that's not really related to the technology at all. This is simply about a dude who murdered his wife. But he also happened to be a brilliant programmer writing one of the more advanced filesystems of its time. Then you get into all of the details. All the steps he took in hiding it. All of the stuff with Russian brides, sex, drugs, and presumably rock an…

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” —-H.D. Thoreau

Without using that this pertains to watering down milk?

Re: Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

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Post by snapplebobapple » Tue, Jun 06, 2023, 3:40 AM UTC

grayhatter wrote: post #7

What a strange article... The code isn't bloodstained. The author is. In order for the code to be bloodstained it would have to be directly related or connected in some way. It's not. But I clicked anyways, so I guess that's was the point.

I was pretty disappointed when I got all the way to the end and not a single person was murdered by a b-tree....

Re: Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel

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Post by HKH2 » Tue, Jun 06, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #8

> Are the Reiser Kids Fighting in Ukraine? > [...] > Meanwhile, Nina’ mother took the children to Russia and refused to return them to the US. They are now prime age for drafting into the Russian armed forces and it’s not implausible to think that they’re fighting in Ukraine. is this really necessary?

Of course not. The title alone should've made you expect such things.