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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
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Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:12:41PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Yes. Typical error cleanup looks like:
> err_out:
> 	up(&sem);
> 	return err;
> 
> Releasing a lock in another function is a crime punished by slow death.

Not to mention that the 'return err;' statement is hard to move to an
inline function meaningfully.
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