Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761380AbXHQHUN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:20:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755357AbXHQHT7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:19:59 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57546 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753264AbXHQHT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:19:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:19:54 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Petr Tesarik Cc: anandjigar@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch Message-Id: <20070817001954.38010df3.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1187250004.12446.3.camel@elijah.suse.cz> References: <25ae38200708152324t4cbadc24ge05cd75f8f0e60e4@mail.gmail.com> <1187250004.12446.3.camel@elijah.suse.cz> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 24 Petr wrote: > Please do not add comments inside functions. I find this advice a bit odd. I am not aware of any prohibition of comments inside functions. As with comments outside functions, they should serve a worthwhile purpose, of course. One might debate whether this particular comment added by Anand was sufficiently valuable to be worth having. But I don't agree to a blanket prohibition on comments inside functions. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/