Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:40:06 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cleanup on selection.c |
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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.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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