Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:33:35 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 queue.3 Message-ID: <1574.1010090015@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:18:34 PST." <200201032018.g03KIYb72472@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <200201032018.g03KIYb72472@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon wri tes: > >:Well the point is, that we are not talking about MYLIST_*, but about >:TAILQ_FIRST. While you are certainly right if you are going to design a > > Yes, but in the last year we have changed the list type for a number > of lists in the system. I had to change the mountq from LIST_ to > TAILQ_, for example, and a number of other people have had to change > other lists as well. > > The macros made it easy to change. Even so I had to cleanup a handful > of modules that were assuming that bzero() would be sufficient to > initialize the list head (it isn't for a TAILQ). If we need to > change a list type that assumptions have been made on, it becomes > much harder. For once I have to hand it to you Matt: I agree 100%. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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