Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:12:32 +0100 (WEST) | From | ULISES ALONSO CAMARO <> | Subject | RE: Cosmetic bugs? (msg irrellevant) |
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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
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