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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

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226 points Ne02ptzero | 3 comments | 02 Jul 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 1.221s | source
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vrnvu ◴[03 Jul 25 11:02 UTC] No.44453763[source]▶
I'd like to highlight this:

>NFS with Kerberos

secure, simple, battle tested. no crazy architecture

works so well a bug showed up in the kernel :-)

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eqvinox ◴[03 Jul 25 13:44 UTC] No.44455019[source]▶
> works so well a bug showed up in the kernel :-)

What exactly are you trying to highlight here? Most code has bugs. This one is someone forgetting to stick to actual behavior described in 1997, it's a mistake, mistakes happen. Which one of "secure", "simple", "battle tested" and "no crazy architecture" do you think this disproves?

Or do you think CIFS or Ceph have no bugs?

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1. gyesxnuibh ◴[03 Jul 25 13:59 UTC] No.44455169[source]▶
I think they're saying typically the kernel one of the last places you'd expect the bug, so it shows that it is battle tested?

I don't think they're being snarky.

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2. eqvinox ◴[03 Jul 25 14:58 UTC] No.44455733[source]▶
I didn't really read it as snarky, I just straight up don't understand what they mean (and maybe why that smiley is there?)
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3. vrnvu ◴[03 Jul 25 18:49 UTC] No.44458072[source]▶
By "no crazy architecture" I meant it avoids the modern trend of building monstrous data platforms on top of data meshes, event buses, and layers of cloud abstractions. The kind I sometimes see, hence the smiley :-)