A potential bug to squeeze extra memory through command line arguments

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 06:02:01PM +0530, haris iqbal wrote:
[...]
> Ok. I have come up with a separate memory model for tcbtab. In this
> model, we will use a linked list instead of a global array of pointers
> tcbtab.
> 
> The structure
> 
> struct s_tcbtab
> {
>     struct tcb* data;
>     struct s_tcbtab* next;
> }
> 
> And a global head of the linked list.
> 
> struct s_tcbtab* head_tcbtab = NULL;

I suppose this memory model is better for some use cases and worse for
some other use cases.
What kind of strace usage would win/lose from this change?


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