>Maybe you should spend a week reading the code? It can be a lot of >fun, and you might even find a bug or two... I'm not sure how serious this suggestion is, but it could be taken as as advice not to ask questions like this on the list, and I'd like to say that the questions are entirely appropriate. It makes more sense to me to ask someone, via linux-fsdevel, who has already spent the week analyzing the code than to duplicate that effort. Many people, including me, have difficulty extracting the big picture from Linux source code, and have very little fun trying. Questions of object lifetimes and memory management are big-picture issues. I can tell from reading lists such as linux-fsdevel that there are others who read Linux C code like they read a textbook. (These are the folks who get irritated at excessive commenting and long variable names). But for the rest of us, asking an expert shouldn't be discouraged. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
