On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 07:14:15PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 02:48:40PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > This is a pretty simple patch that touches a lot of files. What's the > > procedure for handling patches like this? I haven't had to do this > > before. > > I'm not sure it's a good idea. We want it opaque - if anything, I would > prefer to have anything mistakenly passing it to a function that takes > a pointer scream like hell at build time. The current variant doesn't > have such protection, but it can at least be grepped for. void * can't. OK; dropping for now. --b.