Re: Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:31:52PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Yes, I thought you might say that. Technically there's a possibility that
> it'll rain for a week solid in Wales and your house will be washed away.

You've never been here have you. It regularly does that

> Presumably you don't have a wall of sandbags permenantly in place to
> guard against this? Of course, there are no guarantees it

Folks in other bits of town do 8)

> We could attempt to anticipate every potential possibility allowed under
> every standard implemented by the kernel, and then code around them. But
> then we'd spend all our time writing code that didn't actually do anything
> for the users, instead of making stuff work.

Agreed. I know why code takes shortcuts or avoids nasties like that. I write
code that does just the same, but at the end of the day its that code which
is buggy.