This week at LWN: How to ruin Linus's vacation

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 1, 2011 7:31 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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It's all Hugh's fault. Linus was all set to release the final 3.0 kernel when Hugh Dickins showed up on the list with a little problem: occasionally a full copy of the kernel source tree fails because one of the files found therein vanishes temporarily. What followed was a determined bug-chasing exercise which demonstrates how subtle and tricky some of our core code has become. The problem has been found and squashed, but there may be more.

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