Re: Simple script that locks up my box with recent kernels

Pádraig Brady
2006-11-22T10:33:41Z

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:44:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > > memset(buf, 0, SIZE);
> >
> > I'm just checking that you're paying attention.
> >
> > There's a reason sparse warns about the third parameter of a memset()
> > being zero ;)
>
> Heh, it's amazing how commonplace that mistake is.
> Come back bzero, all is forgiven..

It's interesting to do the following on google codesearch

lang:^(c|c\+\+)$ memset\ *\(.*,\ *0\ *\);
http://tinyurl.com/y47qu4

lang:^(c|c\+\+)$ \sif\([^)]*\);
http://tinyurl.com/y4mdbl

It would be interesting to build
up a suite of these regular expressions.

Pádraig.