From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
"Godbole,
Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <Amarendra.Godbole@ge.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:22:49 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403111020230.28486@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403111503.i2BF3uDY010930@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:33:53 EST, "Richard B. Johnson" said:
>
> > People who develop kernel code know the difference between
> > '==' and '=' and are never confused my them. If you make
>
> Remember a few months ago when a lot of very clever people looked at
> a line of code that said 'if (yadda yadda && (uid = 0))' that had been
> inserted into the CVS tree, and it took a while for some of the very clever
> people to notice the equally clever hack?
>
No, and if you bothered to look at any code in the kernel, you'd
note that uid and friends are always associated with some little
pointy thingys. So, it wouldn't have been coded anything like that,
anyway.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-11 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-10 6:16 Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)
2004-03-10 10:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-03-10 18:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-10 18:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 18:50 ` [OT] " David Ford
2004-03-10 19:06 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 19:26 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 21:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 22:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 19:31 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:20 ` Frank v Waveren
2004-03-10 23:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 2:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-11 15:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-10 23:10 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-10 21:29 ` viro
2004-03-10 22:20 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 22:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-11 0:33 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-11 10:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-03-10 22:49 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 23:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-10 23:47 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 21:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-03-10 23:00 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 0:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-11 2:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 3:08 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 3:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 4:40 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 9:48 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 10:29 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 15:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-11 17:42 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 23:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-11 6:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-03-11 7:36 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 15:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2004-03-11 15:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 4:04 Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)
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2004-03-11 16:41 ` Chip Salzenberg
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2004-03-11 16:44 ` Chip Salzenberg
2004-03-11 23:57 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-12 1:51 ` Chris Johns
2004-03-12 12:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
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