Subject: Re: m_defrag() addition
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2005 18:07:13 
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> The function would return new mbuf chain on success or NULL
> on failure, the old mbuf chain would be freed in either case.

Why would the old chain be freed on failure?
What would be potential reason for such failure besides memory allocation
problems?

Martin