Re: Simple script that locks up my box with recent kernels

[Pádraig Brady]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:44:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>  > > memset(buf, 0, SIZE);
>  > 
>  > I'm just checking that you're paying attention.
>  > 
>  > There's a reason sparse warns about the third parameter of a memset() 
>  > being zero ;)
> 
> Heh, it's amazing how commonplace that mistake is.
> Come back bzero, all is forgiven..

It's interesting to do the following on google codesearch

lang:^(c|c\+\+)$ memset\ *\(.*,\ *0\ *\);
http://tinyurl.com/y47qu4

lang:^(c|c\+\+)$ \sif\([^)]*\);
http://tinyurl.com/y4mdbl

It would be interesting to build
up a suite of these regular expressions.

Pádraig.
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