On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 7:20:47 am Andriy Gapon wrote: > > taskqueue_create() documentation never explicitly says this, but current > taskqueue_create() implementation just stores a 'name' pointer parameter > internally. Thus it depends on the 'name' having a life time encompassing > that of > the taskqueue. > I think that alternatively we could have copied the name (or a portion of it) > into > an internal buffer. > I don't any argument for either approach, just curious which one looks more > preferable from general (FreeBSD, kernel) programming practices point of view.
Hmm, in many other places we store a separate copy (e.g. all the interrupt code uses separate MAXCOMLEN char arrays to hold names). If that is easy to do, that is probably the best approach. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
