[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PATCH: utils.c (*_proc_title)

Mike Rylander mrylander at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 21:23:44 EDT 2007


On 6/9/07, Scott McKellar <mck9 at swbell.net> wrote:
> This small and inoffensive patch concerns two functions in utils.c:
> init_proc_title() and set_proc_title().

Applied unaltered with gratitude.

--miker

>
> 1. I added some comments to explain what these functions do for a
> living.
>
> When I first started digging into the code I found these functions
> very peculiar and puzzling.  Maybe some comments will enable someone
> else to avoid some head-scratching.
>
> Of course if my proposed comments are wrong, misleading, or
> incomplete, you can change them as needed.  Alternatively maybe they
> belong in the header file instead.  The header has some comments
> but they don't really explain the purpose.
>
> 2. I declared the __global_argv and __global_argv_size variables
> static.  No other source file refers to them.
>
> 3. I removed the leading underscores from their names.  Identifiers
> beginning with two underscores are reserved for the implementation.
>
> Scott McKellar
> http://home.swbell.net/mck9/aargh/
>
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