In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Mon, 1 Jan 2007 01:43:00 +0100), Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> On Sunday, 31. December 2006 14:38, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > That depends on the decision/definition if (so called) "double free" is > > an error or not (and "free(NULL)" must work in POSIX-compliant > > environments). > > A double free of non-NULL is certainly an error. > So the idea of setting it to NULL is ok, since then you can > kfree the variable over and over again without any harm. I dislike (or, say, I hate) this idea; people should fix up such broken code paths. --yoshfuji - 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/
