On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:39 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's safer indeed. To make things simpler, the patch below just > systematically resets NEWPI and NEWPO to NULL as soon as they don't need > to be dereferenced, does it look ok?
It does, but "NULL" is entirely unnecessary. I much prefer setting pointer variables to "0", which is the way the vast majority of the Hurd code is written. :) Thomas