From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Allen Simpson Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v4 3/3] TCPCT part 1c: initial SYN exchange with SYNACK data Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:50:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4AEF1BC9.6090005@gmail.com> References: <4AE6E35C.2050101@gmail.com> <4AE6E7C0.2050408@gmail.com> <4AEDDF33.9030205@gmail.com> <4AEECFA8.1080306@gmail.com> <1257181219.28925.13.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Dumazet , Linux Kernel Network Developers To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:6351 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751813AbZKBRuB (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:50:01 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so68099fgg.1 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:50:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1257181219.28925.13.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Joe Perches wrote: > Linus wrote a long time back (5+ years): > > The reason for "if (x == 8)" comes from the way we're taught to think. > Arguing against that _fact_ is just totally non-productive, and you have > to _force_ yourself to write it the other way around. > Interesting. I've not been able to Google this quote. I actually think as I write it, finding the other ragged and hard to visually review. But apparently it's an issue for ESL or something, taught to think in another way. Therefore, I'll re-code as Linus has prescribed. Sadly, I'm having very bad luck verifying coding examples by checking against the installed base, as I found thousands of lines following more usual secure coding practices.... Thank you.