I totally agree that odds is really really small.
That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that
can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if
it happen after all.
It is the little peace of mind to know for sure that did
not happen. I am just paranoid.
Chris
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:23:52PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > Some thing like the following patch, may be turn off able.
>
> Take out an old envelope and compute on it the odds of this
> happening.
>
> Say we have 10,000 kernel hackers, each producing one
> new file every minute, for 100 hours a week. And we've
> cloned a small army of Andrew Morton's to integrate
> the resulting tsunamai of patches. And Linus is well
> cared for in the state funny farm.
>
> What is the probability that this check will fire even
> once, between now and 10 billion years from now, when
> the Sun has become a red giant destroying all life on
> planet Earth?
>
> --
> I won't rest till it's the best ...
> Programmer, Linux Scalability
> Paul Jackson <[email protected]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
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