Still exist at the Linux source code comment that said, 'Does this belong here?'

pompous ninja · 01-31-2018, 05:57 PM

In the past was found at the Linux source code right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system a devel comment that said, 'Does this belong here?'.

Still exist at the Linux source code right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system a devel comment that said, 'Does this belong here?'.

If still exist at the Linux source code right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system a devel comment that said, 'Does this belong here?', I probably will add code that inspire confidence.

BW-userx · 01-31-2018, 06:51 PM

I guess no one has yet to give that person that put that there the answer to his question, so why remove it?

or,

maybe Linus Torvalds put that there to mess with your head.

Michael Uplawski · 02-01-2018, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by pompous ninja

In the past was found at the Linux source code right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system a devel comment that said, 'Does this belong here?'.

Thank you, I got it.
You live on the most lucky of all planets in the system. Not mine. Yeah okay. Felicitations.

ondoho · 02-01-2018, 02:52 PM

Does this belong here?

allend · 02-01-2018, 04:45 PM

'grep -r "Does this belong here"' returns nothing when run against the source for the 2.6.37.6 and 4.14.15 kernels that I can quickly check.

rknichols · 02-01-2018, 05:56 PM

I always liked the comment that used to be on the longjmp instruction at the heart of the scheduler:

"/* you are not expected to understand this */".

I suspect that one is long gone, too.

frankbell · 02-01-2018, 09:17 PM

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In the past was found at the Linux source code right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system a devel comment that said, 'Does this belong here?'.

Developers sometimes have very a strange sense of humor.

scasey · 02-01-2018, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

Developers sometimes have very a strange sense of humor.

Sometimes??

ChuangTzu · 02-01-2018, 10:11 PM

Search OP's threads/posts...there is a pattern

dugan · 02-02-2018, 11:30 AM

Uh, ChuangTzu?

LQ doesn't actually support linking to searches. Try the link you just posted, and you'll see that it doesn't work.

hazel · 02-02-2018, 11:41 AM

I just went into a kernel top-level directory and did a search using find with xargs grep -i f*** (though I didn't use asterisks on the actual search!).

I found four examples in header files and about 20 in C files. My favourites are:
Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds f***ed it up
and
F***, we are miserable poor guys...

ChuangTzu · 02-02-2018, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Uh, ChuangTzu?

LQ doesn't actually support linking to searches. Try the link you just posted, and you'll see that it doesn't work.

It was supposed to be a search/link showing the OP's other threads/posts etc...

dugan · 02-02-2018, 04:25 PM

Turns out pompous_ninja was thinking of BSD. Not Linux.

Michael Uplawski · 02-02-2018, 11:57 PM

I am guilty of using once in a while a code-comment that I had found (“very”) funny, when my English was not yet good enough to appreciate more sophisticated humor and knowing that the author of the program in question does normally not show a bit of sens of humor, himself:

Code:

/* Bugfix. I am too dumb to program */