On: A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory managemen...

[afwaller]

There are only two hard problems in computer science.

Cache invalidation, and naming things. And off by one errors.

[Scarblac → afwaller]

That's the difference between computer science and software engineering. Software engineering has only a single hard problem: people.

[progval → afwaller]

And off by 2^32 errors

[taneq → progval]

Don't think I've ever heard of off-by-0 errors before. Doesn't sound that bad...

[jstimpfle → afwaller]

And asynchronous callbacks.

[quickthrower2 → jstimpfle]

Why is that a hard problem?

(Once someone answers this, I promise to read and process the answer, but I'll go and do something else in the meantime)

[ibotty → quickthrower2]

The joke is, that this answer came late.

[drharby → afwaller]

What you did there, I see