From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 21 3:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B1037B401; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7370F43E6E; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8LAg34v038210; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: Darren Reed , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:16:27 PDT." Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:42:03 +0200 Message-ID: <38209.1032604923@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: >Probablyu this misunderstanding comes because under irix (and pfilter >supports irix) the m_length() function has the functionality >that Darren seems to be talking about. It's an unfortunate fact that >this obvious name has been used before.. Personally I think >it ould be better named as m_tally or m_iterate or something.. > >I expect something called m_length to be more the irix definition >of "the cannonical way to get the length of the packet at all times". >So I think it's an unfortunate choice of name. Ahh, So _that_ is why Darren flew totally off the handle. I am not particularly attached to the name m_length(), feel free to rename it. m_tally() seems a good choice to me. Gee, how much easier things would be if Darren could be bothered to state his agenda, rather than to just try to smash things into submission. -- 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