Make sense!

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:23:38AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:27:01AM -0700, Andy Zhou wrote:
> > > Looks good.  Do we need to filter the warnings out from comments if
> they
> > > are not to be used in the code?
> >
> > It's not easy to reliably filter out warnings from comments.  It's
> > usually easy to avoid mentioning these functions in comments.  If it
> > becomes a problem, we can do something else.
>
> Oh, I see what you mean now.  I guess I did try to filter out comments and
> forgot that I did that.  I wrote this patch over a month ago, even
> though I only sent it out for the first time this week.
>
> When I remove the code that filters out comments, the following lines
> get flagged:
>
>     ../lib/random.c:34: * We use this PRNG instead of libc's rand()
> because rand() varies in quality
>     ../lib/util.c:649: * similar to the POSIX dirname() function but
> thread-safe. */
>     ../lib/util.c:667: * similar to the POSIX basename() function but
> thread-safe. */
>     ../ovsdb/ovsdb-client.c:704:         * going to strtok() it and that's
> risky with literal "". */
>     See above for list of calls to functions that are
>     blacklisted due to thread safety issues
>
> I think that these comments are valuable enough that I don't want to
> delete or mangle them.  What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
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