From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755332AbXFWRw1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:52:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbXFWRwT (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:52:19 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57222 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbXFWRwT (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:52:19 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? Date: 23 Jun 2007 19:38:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <20070623154328.222a2f92@the-village.bc.nu> <200706231722.26931.microchip@chello.be> <20070623164608.05dc5c30@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hd5b9080a.c45-01-12.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "AC" == Alan Cox writes: AC> A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel The clone() call and the efficient 1:1 threading it brought was definitely innovative. None of the other Unices had anything similar. splice() is innovative as well, even though it took 10 years from concept to implementation... /Benny