Pierre Beyssac <beys...@enst.fr> wrote:
> Another big problem is that there's a check in m_retry and friends > that panics when falling short of mbufs! I really believe this does > more harm than good, because it prevents correct calling code > (checking for NULL mbuf pointers) from exiting gracefully with > ENOBUFS... I've discussed this with Garett back in September. The reason is quite simple: unless all cases of not checking for a NULL pointer returned are fixed (or instrumented with a panic), it is better to fail with a panic than with some obscure problem later on. Stefan -- Mühlendamm 12 | Voice +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22089 Hamburg | e-mail: stefan.bet...@hanse.de Germany | s...@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
