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Maybe SCO had a point

Posted Aug 22, 2003 5:10 UTC (Fri) by ekonijn (subscriber, #6395)
In reply to: Maybe SCO had a point by rfunk
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

In both cases, the assert protects against negative values
of size; nothing wrong there. The if statement is not quite useless,
it's the difference between an oops and a running system.

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Posted Aug 22, 2003 5:23 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Sorry, I was looking at the ASSERT backwards.

I still agree with Jon Corbet's though; the Linux code is closer to the SysV code than to the 32V code.