It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

— Linus Torvalds, Re: [patch] git: fix memory leak #2 in read-cache.c (2005)

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504140804480.7211@ppc970.osdl.org/

From a 2005 reply to a git memory-leak patch.

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