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Re: syscall nesting

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>...
> And it is widely known that the use of "goto" is not a good programming
> practice and the linux kernel uses it (for performance reasons, I think).
>...

It is widely known that the _abuse_ of "goto" is not a good programming 
practice.

The use in the kernel is not for performance reasons, it's a clean way 
of error handling.

If you'd look at the code, you'd understand this.

> Best regards

cu
Adrian

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