Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 10:24:39 EST


On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > Wrong again, it makes the code less readable because kzalloc() is a
> > non standard function name. This looks more to me like a patch just
> > for the sake of the patch.
>
> kzalloc() may sound a bit funny, correct, but if the standard
> kmem_alloc() under Linux sounds like kmalloc() then kmem_zalloc()
> should sound like kzalloc(), should it not?

kcalloc() ? (after all, it's called calloc() in libc)

cheers,

Rik

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