čt 18. 9. 2025 v 10:36 odesílatel Gabriele Monaco [off-list ref] napsal:
Yeah totally, I have the feeling that with the kernel there's no such a
thing as a "theoretical bug", kinda like a good consequence of Murphy's
Law.
My understanding of "theoretical bug" is that it's code that is
semantically equivalent to a bug-free code, but becomes buggy after
doing an "innocent" change. The bug might be more or less
"theoretical" based on how "innocent" that change is. Of course, in a
codebase of the size of a Linux kernel, this tends to happen quite
often, and is not always possible to get rid of completely...
Tomas