linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip 1/1] perf record: Fix typo in pid_synthesize_comm

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:07:11 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip 1/1] perf record: Fix typo in pid_synthesize_comm_event

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:26:32 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo said:
> We were using 'fd' locally, but there was a global 'fd' too, so when
> converting from open to fopen the test made against fd should be made
> against 'fp', but since we have that global...

If the kernel was -Wshadow safe by default, this sort of thing would happen
less often... :)

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