[haiku-gsoc] Re: [HCD]: Bfs bug #1
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:30:44 +0200
On 2008-06-29 at 11:53:29 [+0200], Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> To summirize,
>
> - The vnode struct in vfs.cpp should be modified in order to have an
> union of two struct, one
> for the condition variable used while the vnode is created or removed,
> and the other for file locking
> stuff, which used while using the vnode (btw: which part is it?),
> basically like it's done in the sem_entry
> structure. Was I correct?
To keep the changes minimal we could use an anonymous union just for one of
the existing pointers and the new condition variable pointer.
> - Quoting Ingo: "Codepaths necessary to recover from extreme memory
> shortage should
> have some preallocated buffers around they can use then."
You're actually quoting Axel, but that doesn't make it less correct. :-)
> I guess the latest should be pointed to Marcus.
I don't know, whether this is related, but it doesn't harm to notify Marcus
of the ticket.
CU, Ingo
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