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Title: Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel Post by: HCK on October 08, 2016, 04:05:17 pm Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel
Linux creator Linus Torvalds this week apologized for including in the just-released Linux 4.8 kernel a bug fix that crashed it. The bug the dev was trying to fix has existed since Linux 3.15, "but the fix is clearly worse than the bug ... since that original bug has never killed my machine," Torvalds wrote. Kernel work, like brain surgery, is not foolproof, noted tech analyst Al Hilwa. Source: Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83975.html?rss=1) |