On Mon, 13 May 2013 18:19:43 +0300 Eugen-Andrei Gavriloaie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this user data pointer is also breaking a well known > pointer management paradigm, but I just can't remember which. > Regardless, it has all the ingredients for memory leaks and/or, the > worst one, use of corpse pointers which are bound to crash the app. I > agree, C/C++ is not for the faint of heart, but with little or close > to no efforts, his EV_FREEWATCH can be put to very good use, and user > space code not only becomes less prone to mem issues, but also > cleaner. > > To summarise, +1 for the EV_FREEWATCH. I simply love the idea! Clean > and very very efficient. I actually developed the idea a little further and put some notes on implementation/etc here in this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=153254 I don't think anyone has looked at it though. If anyone were to just say "yes" and explain how to start developing a kernel feature, I'm sure I'd be happy to look into it. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans [email protected] ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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