Subject: Re: Strange Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK complaints (was: Bug#513695: fetchmail: race in MSG_PEEK)

From: Frans Pop <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:43:18 +0200

On Thursday 07 May 2009, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > Can you please elaborate why you think that? It may be horribly
> > broken (I've never claimed to be a C coder, and probably never will),
> > but it also really is the patch that generates the printks...
>
> ...This was mainly meant to be a joke... :-)
>
> The parenthesis won't match how a printk with string and 4 args should
> be called, so with this version you have in the mail peek_seq and
> tp->copied_seq are not put into stack or you were just super lucky.

Ah, yes. You're absolutely right. Duh.
gcc does warn about it, but I must have missed that.