Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface

From: Thunder from the hill (thunder@lightweight.ods.org)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 08:52:51 EST

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Hi,

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Friday 13 September 2002 08:51, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > [cool code]
>
> Why is that different from:
>
> [more code]

Because in your example, my_module_start() would not be able to run
separately, and because, as Rusty mentioned, my_module_init() can fail
separately (e.g. if there's no space to drop that).

Thunder

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