Paul Jackson wrote: > Andi wrote: >> It used to be this way, but all the callers don't check for NULL currently >> and they would crash a few instructions later. > > Let them crash ;) Some system administrator will be one step closer to > understanding the problem if the big application running on the system > they manage dumps core in the caller off a NULL pointer, than if some > big application quietly, politely exits. On a 64bit system where you don't run out of virtual address space this typically only happens under severe OOM when core dumps won't work either. Besides it's not quietly. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
