Bitstring(9) in kernel.

Maxime Henrion mux at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 15 07:02:49 PST 2004


Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Ok, bitstring(9) is broken for kernel use atm, because leak of calloc()
> > function. What we should do about it?
> 
> No, it isn't broken.  You just have to use bitstr_size() to figure out
> how much space it needs and do the alloc yourself.

That is, reimplement bit_alloc().  This makes 0 sense, we should indeed
fix bit_alloc() as Pawel suggested.

Cheers,
Maxime


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