Question: advancements in proven concepts

From: Indrek Kruusa (indrek.kruusa_at_tuleriit.ee)
Date: 01/02/05

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    Hi and HNY!

    I have one question about the "existence of collected ideas".
    It is obvious that by using only proven concepts and standards have led
    the Linux on the top of the world. But it is hard to believe that you
    guys are absolutely agree with every agreement or standard ever created.
    Is there a place for linux kernel community where ideas about the needed
    advancements in those proven concepts can be presented to the world in
    nice, structured and easily readable way? Or is this the professional
    property of the kernel programmer to not ask a question about the
    "healtiness" of some POSIX thing or not to give a hint for better
    hardware implementation? Well, this last question is a little nagging.

    For example I found this message yesterday:

    Re: ptrace single-stepping change breaks Wine
    From: Linus Torvalds
    Date: Sat Jan 01 2005 - 17:15:54 EST

    ...

    <snip>

    It would have been nice if Intel had added a
    "single-step" bit to %db7, and then just or'ed in the values of TF and the
    new flag when deciding to single-step.

    <snip>

    ...

    Maybe this idea have been said out just for fun (btw, I have one book
    which have similar title :) ) but why not collect such things together?
    For sure there are ideas about every tool, technology or standard which
    is used for kernel development or with which the kernel have to cope
    with. Is it possible to build up such a knowledge base or is there
    similar already?

    thanks,
    Indrek

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