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Re: ports_create_port() with bogus size?
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Carl Fredrik Hammar |
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Re: ports_create_port() with bogus size? |
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Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:43:01 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hello,
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:45:50PM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
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> (I guess it *might* make sense to special-case a "0" size, if the caller
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> is not interested in any additional data -- though I'm not sure that's ever
> useful. But other cases are definitely bogus.)
It's not used like this anywhere in the Hurd. I made a quick survey
and all callers pass the result of a sizeof expression or some minor
variation, even if only sizeof(struct port_info). So there is no reason
not to remove this ``feature''.
Regards,
Fredrik