From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, chrisw@osdl.org,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sds@epoch.ncsc.mil,
jmorris@redhat.com, mika@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:49:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709164919.6b6a077d.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fz80c406.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric wrote:
>
> Does this mean constructs like:
> ``if (pointer)'' and ``if (!pointer)'' are also outlawed.
>
> And do we then need to initialize static pointers to NULL instead
> of letting them be implicitly 0.
>
> Is doing memset(&(struct with_embeded_pointers), 0, sizeof(struct))
> also wrong?
I suspect not. Up to Linus. This is all about writing code that
doesn't bite.
Since mostly it's us humans doing the writing, this is more a human
engineering problem than a pure mathematics problem such as Dijkstra
or Wirth were closer to addressing.
Let someone with demonstrated good taste dictate the style choices
that lead to short, sweat, but seldom screwy code.
It's all arbitrary as hell. The proof is in the pudding.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-07 19:25 [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/ Chris Wright
2004-07-08 3:12 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 3:27 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-08 3:43 ` Miles Bader
2004-07-08 5:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 5:35 ` Miles Bader
2004-07-08 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:23 ` Dave Jones
2004-07-08 17:57 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-09 11:23 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-10 19:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-11 10:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-11 10:54 ` viro
2004-07-11 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-11 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-12 15:58 ` Florian Weimer
2004-07-12 16:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-08 11:18 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 13:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-08 13:56 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 14:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-08 5:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:52 ` Timothy Miller
[not found] ` <200407090056.51084.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-07-12 15:17 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-12 16:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-12 16:51 ` Andrew Pimlott
2004-07-15 16:15 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-09 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-09 23:49 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2004-07-10 1:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-10 1:47 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-10 21:53 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 6:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 6:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 6:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 9:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-10 15:39 ` Roland Dreier
2004-07-11 2:45 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-07-11 21:19 ` Olaf Titz
2004-07-10 9:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-10 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-11 21:47 ` Olaf Titz
2004-07-13 8:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-14 3:12 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-13 18:53 ` Elladan
2004-07-14 3:15 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 12:11 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-10 21:59 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-11 4:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 9:31 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-07-10 22:07 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 23:52 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-11 0:12 ` Tim Wright
2004-07-12 22:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-10 8:18 ` Florian Weimer
2004-07-08 11:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-08 11:28 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 11:44 ` Martin Zwickel
2004-07-08 12:06 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 12:38 ` [OT] NULL versus 0 (Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/) Kari Hurtta
2004-07-08 12:42 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 12:57 ` Kari Hurtta
2004-07-08 15:25 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-10 8:22 ` [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/ Florian Weimer
2004-07-08 11:43 ` P. Benie
2004-07-08 14:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-08 15:00 ` Michael Poole
2004-07-08 15:30 ` P. Benie
2004-07-08 15:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-10 7:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 7:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 6:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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