Re: interpreting 'netstat -s'

From: Stephen Paskaluk (paskaluk_at_NOSPAM.ece.ualberta.ca)
Date: 09/10/03 

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:19:04 +0000 (UTC)

In article <737da4e2.0309091152.5e2614df@posting.google.com>, J.Smith wrote:
> The last thing that went through my mind while reading "tcp_input.c",
> just before I blacked out and hit the keyboard with my forehead: " Oh
> my god, their using *goto* statements in the kernel... "

This probably won't matter to you as a non-programmer, and certainly has
nothing to do with your question, but it may help you sleep at night
after seeing gotos in kernel code.

The goto statement, while frowned upon in general programming,
represents one machine instruction on pretty much any processor, making
it an effective, simple and efficient component of system code. That's
not to say I'd like to see them all over the place. 

-- 
Stephen Paskaluk
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my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental.  Any
resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic.  The
question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them
is left as an exercise for the reader.  The question of the existence of
the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient.  (A
discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope
of this article.)

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