> Why are fundamental things like resource allocation at least not standardised in the kernel? They are. The slab allocator mentioned in the article is one par

> Why are fundamental things like resource allocation at least not standardised in the kernel? They are. The slab allocator mentioned in the article is one part of that. The problem here was not that allocation is ad hoc, but that the author was unaware of the conventions. It would, of course, be nice to have some static analysis to help out people in that situation.