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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	schwab@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9816] New: cannot replace route
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:32:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080126143232.GD2624@ami.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080126141010.GC2624@ami.dom.local>

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:10:10PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> [...] so old thing is always supposed to be
> destroyed (of course it's a matter of implementation or conditions in
> which moment this destruction takes place).
> 
> So, 'replace with itself' is simply ambiguous: we can always delete the
> object first, to prepare the place for replacement, and find there is
> nothing to do after this - and it's probably not what somebody wanted.

As a matter of fact, the moment of destruction doesn't even matter:
assuming the replaced thing is destroyed in all 'common' cases, doing
this at the end isn't probably wanted as well - and skipping this
action makes an exception - what IMHO proves the concept is at least
inconsistent.

Jarek P.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-26 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-9816-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-01-25 22:26 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 9816] New: cannot replace route Andrew Morton
2008-01-25 23:11   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-26  3:20     ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-26  5:16       ` Joonwoo Park
2008-01-26 11:40         ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-26 14:10           ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-26 14:27             ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-26 15:19               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-27  1:11                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-27  7:58                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-27  9:49                   ` Julian Anastasov
2008-01-27 11:14                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-26 14:32             ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2008-01-26 12:10       ` Jarek Poplawski

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