fixed bug in wl_list

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 11:20:10 PST 2011


On 03/12/2011 04:28 AM, Marty Jack wrote:
> I have never encountered a system where it was believed to be desirable to allow something to be removed twice.  It is important to keep data structures clean.  If anything you would be more likely to see a debugging mode where the lists were fully checked after every insert or remove to make sure they are internally consistent, especially if they are important to keeping the system running.  It's not that much different from memory allocation.  A block is allocated, or it is free, and a double free is a bug.

Making it crash at the moment the second remove is attempted is better 
than it leaving the data corrupted and crashing later. It makes it a lot 
easier to find out why it went wrong.

I think that is what the newest version of the patch is doing, right?


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