From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: chris@scary.beasts.org (Chris Evans), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor net/core/sock.c security issue?
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:41:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15196.61008.690839.396406@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107240302.f6O32iB279266@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15196.45004.237634.928656@pizda.ninka.net> <200107240302.f6O32iB279266@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
Albert D. Cahalan writes:
> Long term, __builtin_min() and __builtin_max() would be nice.
I would even avoid this, what is the signedness of their
arguments and return values? The answer is: I don't care,
because I have to look it up.
And if I have to look it up, I know that most people _won't_ look it
up and will just guess or assume. Most people are therefore likely to
misuse it.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-24 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-23 22:24 Chris Evans
2001-07-23 23:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-24 3:02 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-24 3:41 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-07-24 4:55 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-24 22:24 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2001-07-27 9:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-27 16:44 ` kuznet
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