Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:42:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: objections to sbuf? Message-ID: <3A37ED35.8AC618D5@elischer.org> References: <xzpzoi0l3a5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200012131842.eBDIgB984584@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :Any serious objections to committing the latest sbuf patch?
> :
> :DES
> :--
> :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
>
> I won't object to you comitting it, but I think it's a huge waste
> of effort and space, not to mention introducing yet another MALLOC
> allocation which can potentially deadlock the system at a critical
> juncture. The kernel just doesn't have any sort of serious
> string handling problem that using snprintf() and strlcpy() couldn't
> fix in a second.
What he said..
(I haven't see a glaring need for this yet...
BTW I lost the URL to the new improved version...)
>
> -Matt
>
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