The following reply was made to PR kern/36673; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/36673: dubious code in sysmon_envsys
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:16:45 +0200

 On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:35:00 +0000 (UTC)
 yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp wrote:
 
 > 	- sme_register_sensorname doesn't need to handle EMPTY case
 > specially.
 
 Fixed.
 
 > 	- sme_make_dictionary should fully set up a dictionary before
 > 	 adding it to the array.  (instead of leaving a partial
 > dictionary on errors.)
 > 	 same for sysmon_envsys_createplist and its array.
 
 Are you saying that only one error should destroy the whole array?
 and why?
 
 > 	- ENVSYS_FDUPDESC seems broken for compat ioctls.
 
 It seems so and I'll fix.
 
 > 	- what global mutexes like sme_mtx protect is not clear.
 
 Not clear why? can you explain more?
 
 > 	- 'obj' argument of sme_sensor_upstring (and similar
 > functions) is useless.
 
 Fixed.
 
 > 	- '--sme->sme_nsensors' in sme_update_dictionary seems quite
 > dubious.
 
 Dubious, why? how do you want to skip sensors with duplicate
 description, otherwise? let me know if you know any other way and I'll
 fix.
 
 > 	- sysmon_envsys_createplist seems to ignore most errors
 > 	 unless it was for the last sensor in sme_sensor_data[].
 > 	 i don't understand why the last one is special.
 
 I don't understand what you are reporting here. 
 
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