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- From: jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!grendel.demon.co.uk!jes
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
- Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
- References: <1992Dec14.172729.9675@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec14.174625.1102@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Dec14.192204.16359@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Segrave Software Services
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:32:30 +0000
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.193230.282@grendel.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- In article <1992Dec14.192204.16359@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- > [odds and ends re fixing things...]
- > 1) in linux/fs/inode.c, at the start, change
- >
- > static struct wait_queue * inode_wait;
- >
- > to
- >
- > static struct wait_queue * inode_wait = NULL;
- >
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- Just curious - I haven't got the .99 sources yet, but why is an explicit
- initialiser needed here. A static pointer ought to be initialised to
- NULL in the executable already?
-
- Jim
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- Jim Segrave - Segrave Software Services (jes@grendel.demon.co.uk)
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