FW: function return value

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Mar 7 18:20:00 GMT 2007


Hi -

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:51:31AM -0500, John Liang wrote:
> The function I am interested in returns a dentry pointer. 
> Does $return have to be an integral type? 

A pointer is deemed integral.  $return will simply be the pointer
value.  It should also be dereferencable like other $variables
("$return->d_mounted") to some extent.

- FChE



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