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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:45:46 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        ctsmhn@cts.com (Matthew H. North)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reproducible kernel panics in ffs_valloc: dup_alloc
Message-ID:  <200104050045.RAA03573@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <LAEKJNMMIOPFCDDPFBDEIECBCBAA.ctsmhn@cts.com> from "Matthew H. North" at Apr 04, 2001 08:54:47 AM

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> Thanks for the help.  However, from my understanding of C, that patch does
> nothing (except add an extra instruction or two to the kernel).  It simply
> adds an extra OR condition, that is always false, to an if statement.
> 
> if CONDITION then
> 	do something
> 
> is exactly the same as
> 
> if FALSE or CONDITION then
> 	do something
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something.  If so, please let me know.

I think he meant "&&" instead of "||", which then dikes the code out.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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