On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > If yes, who invented this 1980s reminiscence, where you got valid > pointers for malloc(0) ?
I believe his first name started with an L and ended with an s ;-) Seriously the kmalloc(0) pointer allowed us to detect cases in which people tried to store into objects allocated with kmalloc(0). If we would just return NULL then we would not be able to distinguish it from a failure (that is what I initially had). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
