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Re:Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 by 0xcde4c3db on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:06PM (#16033156)
According to Linus, programmers who prefer C++ are so bad that he would have chosen C solely to avoid dealing with their "total and utter crap" code, and C++ is only good for kernel development if you limit yourself to a C-like subset anyway [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/

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Re:Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 by user5994461 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:27PM (#16039186)
There are C++ mechanisms that do not work well in the kernel context. Like any implicit memory allocation or exceptions.

Linus is not entirely crazy. The Windows kernel SDK only supported C++ in the last decade and it has a lot of limitations.

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Re:Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 by pjmlp on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:35AM (#16034434)
The same Linus that now uses Qt and C++ for his diving application.....
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