Re: memory leak in dir-lookup found

2001-04-13 Thread Roland McGrath
> > I don't think this is a useful interface change. To my mind, your > > interface makes it easier to fail to check for errors and more dangerous to > > do so. That is, you can just ignore the error_t return value and an > > undetected error results in an uninitialized result parameter that the

[PATCH] proc: cleanup

2001-04-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
This includes, among others, the proposed changes that I sent on March 26. 2000-04-03 Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * proc.h (struct ids): Drop gids and ngids, we never use them. Turn uids into a zero length array. * mgt.c (make_ids): Conform to new semantics.

Re: memory leak in dir-lookup found

2001-04-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I don't think this is a useful interface change. To my mind, your > interface makes it easier to fail to check for errors and more dangerous to > do so. That is, you can just ignore the error_t return value and an > undetected error results in an uninitialized result parameter that the > carel

[PATCH] POSIX file locking

2001-04-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
This patch adds support for POSIX file locking to the Hurd. As I do not have a POSIX manual, this is a best effort at conformance. What does that mean? As far as I can tell, the behavior, with the exceptions listed below, matches that exhibited by GNU/Linux and the descriptions which I have fou