Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:44:50 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cleanup on selection.c |
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Em Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:40:06PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu: > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:36:55 -0700 > From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The copy_from_user_ret() define is both BUGGY and UGLY: it's buggy because > > it is done as a statement expression even though it's not actually an > > expression at all. > > In fact, there's been talk about adjusting the definition of statement > expressions such that you cannot branch into or out of them at all. > > I've sent Linus a patch which kills all of this xxx_ret user access > routine crapola.
good to know, myTODO-- :)
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