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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobjects, sysfs and the driver model make my head hurt
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:42:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0307060935140.14675@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030706163353.GU23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Why on earth does it return the value of its argument?

Maybe for the same reason 'strcpy' returns 'dest'. It allows you to use
the function in a function parameter :

obj *get(obj *o);
int rel(obj *o);
int foo(int q, obj *o);

foo(17, get(o));
rel(o);



- Davide


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-06 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-06 16:33 Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-06 16:42 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2003-07-06 17:03   ` James Morris
2003-07-06 17:15     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-07  7:05   ` Johan.Adolfsson
2003-07-06 16:46 ` Greg KH
2003-07-06 16:54   ` Jeff Garzik

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