[Ocfs2-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] OCFS2

[Daniel Phillips]

Hi Mark,

On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:54, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:30:23AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Zero terminated strings for lock names is bad taste.  It generates a
> > bunch of useless strlen executions and you force an ascii namespace for
> > no apparent reason.  Add a 9th parameter, namelen, to the lock call
> > maybe?
>
> Or perhaps pass in a qstr? Anyway I have to agree. That shouldn't be
> difficult to fix up.

Qstr would be nice, either that or an explicit string length.  Either way, the 
compiler will catch any missed fixups.

Regards,

Daniel