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SubjectRE: Cosmetic bugs? (msg irrellevant)
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:

[...]
> There are many locations in the kernel that due this (and similar things).
> A list was generated by someone a while back. It can be found at
> http://suberic.net/~kevin/linuxbugs.txt
> I don't know what kernel the list was compiled against, and some of these
> may have moved, or been fixed by now.
>
> But as it's already been said, for a lot of these incidents, there is often
> no 'nice way out' when things fail.

Ok, I was thinking in it as a diagnostic message rather than catching the
error to recover from it

> Trapping all these cases to panic and
> explain why would probably be not worth the space that they would take up,

Please note that these two functions are __init functions, I think in
these your reason doesn't apply

> as they really are 99.9% impossible to hit. (Or at least should be).
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Sorry my poor english, do you want to mean "impossible to recover from"?

Bye

Ulisses
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