Very pragmatic. He sees software in the overall context of getting a job done with a computer, imperfect though it may be, instead of dying because it was not perfect.
Unlike a segfault from a user space program that indeed merits a 'kill', the kernel should strive at all costs to keep running, since kernel panics are so much more inconvenient.
Unlike a segfault from a user space program that indeed merits a 'kill', the kernel should strive at all costs to keep running, since kernel panics are so much more inconvenient.