From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBUPC-0000OI-Qv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:15:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBUPB-0000Nn-Er for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:15:05 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBUPB-0000NY-1X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:15:05 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBUPB-0003OM-3i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:15:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4780C62C.2050704@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:14:36 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix possible NULL pointer use in hw/ptimer.c References: <477C489C.1000208@earthlink.net> <200801041844.43789.rob@landley.net> <200801050107.59131.paul@codesourcery.com> <200801042047.03059.rob@landley.net> <7CE6E896-6095-426D-8334-2CE1A3D8838C@jump-ing.de> In-Reply-To: <7CE6E896-6095-426D-8334-2CE1A3D8838C@jump-ing.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paul Brook , Robert Reif Markus Hitter wrote: > > Quite obviously, we have very different expectations on what > executables should do. I expect code to be as reliable as possible, to > be careful when aquiring resources and if a process would ever happen > to make my computer spontanuously reboot, I'd throw that binary as far > away as possible and warn everybody else not to even touch this thing. > If a user program causes your computer to spontaneously reboot, you should throw away your OS instead of that program. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function