Socket selection.

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Thu May 20 21:01:49 GMT 2004


Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> In in_pcblookup_hash() function, in the last loop if we find exact
> match, we return immediately, if it is "wild", we store a pointer and
> we countinue looking for exact match.
> I wonder if this is ok, that we change pointer every time we find a
> "wild" match. Is it inteded? Shouldn't it be:
> 
>         http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/in_pcb.c.2.patch

No.  This is a stack variable which is unconditionally initialized to
NULL a few lines earlier.  Checking for variable == NULL is always
going to be true and makes your 'optimization' just redundand.

> While I'm here, I want to improve code readability a bit:
> 
>         http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/in_pcb.c.3.patch
> 
> Is it ok?

No.  You change the logic of the 'if' statements to something totally
different.  This ain't going to work in any way.

-- 
Andre


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