Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Pornin
nning, doing that. Well, it works, but with strange bugs in some occasions. I am still sorting these out. It is utterly tricky, anyway. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: Extraneous whitespace removal?

2001-01-08 Thread Thomas Pornin
\, are errors. gcc admits this syntax but it is bad practice, and should be avoided. For Makefile, DocBook, TeX and assembly, this should be ok too. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?)

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Pornin
opinion. But if I were to design a new OS kernel right now, I would take special care to isolate and document extensions as much as possible, so that I could ease portability and find bugs more easily. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: non-gcc linux?

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Pornin
er people even in such an occurence), is not bound by any scriptural glyph such as '(c)'. I can add '(c) Free Software Fundation' in all my source files, and they will remain mine. So, where I live, the point is moot. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: mount and 2.2.18

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Pornin
is NFSv3 aware, I suggest you shift your client to NFSv3 as well. It rocks. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: quicksort for linked list

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Pornin
et it implies a significantly larger amount of comparisons than quicksort (about twice, I think). Insertion sort will be better anyway for small sets of data (for 5 or less elements). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Thomas Pornin
d, or a very smart compiler could also think real hard and replace the whole program by an equivalent printf(). Besides, a standard (C99) compiler will reject the 'main' definition. At least, the return type cannot be implicit anymore. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from th

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread Thomas Pornin
you nihilist ? --Thomas Pornin - 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/

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Thomas Pornin
figuration script should also emit some warnings (it detects the versions installed, it just does not bother reporting the potential problem). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-26 Thread Thomas Pornin
ilers is one way to achieve portability. (yet I do not believe it will happen anyday soon) --Thomas Pornin - 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/major