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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:52:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
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To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface
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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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