Josef “Jeff” Sipek

So, the conference started today, with Jonathan Corbet’s presentation about the changes in the past year. I showed up about a minute before he started, and therefore many of the seats were taken. I, however, did not try to look for a seat. Why? Simple. I noticed someone who seemed familiar. When the presentation ended, I walked to him and said: “You know, you look just like this one Finnish guy that maintains this program that a bunch of my friends use.” Then we had a nice conversation for the next half hour about things ranging from who he wants to be the VFS maintainer, why certain symbols are not being exported, etc. About half way though, Mike Halcrow (of the eCryptfs fame) showed up, and joined our conversation. He said two things that made Linus (yes, it was Linus Torvalds) cringe:

1. He suggested to add a way for some of the vfs calls to be “filtered” - he however used the word “streams” to describe this flow of data; Linus’s reaction was “you said the bad word”
2. Then there was brief segue into security - he mentioned BSD security levels, to which Linus replied with “We still support that crap?!”

Of course there were plenty of other people that I saw, including Andrew Morton, S. Tweedie, Ted Tso, and the list can go on and on.