On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 16:51, Russ Allbery wrote: > xsdg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ::snip? SNIP!:: > > Secondly, something, somewhere, recognized that the cache was on an XFS > > partition, but only warned me after I was unable to do anything. From > > re-reading the original report, it appears that this warning has been > > added since then. > > The only thing that's changed so far as I know is the documentation in > README.modules. I don't believe there's any way of detecting in advance > whether the system calls are going to fail, since those details are rather > buried in the kernel.
This would probably be an upstream question, but is there no way to check for a null pointer before dereferencing it? I'm not familiar with kernel or AFS coding, but it seems like calling a function on faith with an inconsistent API is asking for problems. > > I'm not sure what message you might have received about this, or what > might have produced it. A grep doesn't seem to turn up anything in the > OpenAFS source that would have produced such a warning. I'll try to duplicate it over this coming weekend or early-ish next week. --xsdg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
