In article <1992Dec14.192204.16359@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
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> [odds and ends re fixing things...]
> 1) in linux/fs/inode.c, at the start, change
>
>       static struct wait_queue * inode_wait;
>
>    to
>
>       static struct wait_queue * inode_wait = NULL;
>

Just curious - I haven't got the .99 sources yet, but why is an explicit
initialiser needed here. A static pointer ought to be initialised to
NULL in the executable already? 

Jim

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