Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well you must mean something different by "strong typing" from the > rest of us. Strong typing means that the compiler can check that you > have passed in the correct types of arguments, but the compiler > doesn't have any visibility into what structures are valid in netlink > messages.
That's strong static typing. Netlink is 90% strong static typing plus 10% strong dynamic typing. That is, it'll tell you at run-time if you give it the wrong netlink attribute. The types within each netlink attribute is checked at compile time. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/
