From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 7 15:21:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21416 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (tel_ppp0004.livingston.net [207.22.211.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21407 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 15:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02043; Wed, 7 May 1997 17:20:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199705072220.RAA02043@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe To: terry@lambert.ORG (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:20:10 -0500 (CDT) Cc: terry@lambert.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nadav@barcode.co.il, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705071729.KAA21492@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 7, 97 10:29:27 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > Next you will ask me "Yes or No: have you stopped beating your > girlfriend?"... No, I won't touch this one....:) Terry, I was playing a form of DA here. I'm just getting tired of "old" code that is both written in the dark ages and uncommented. The use of the P() stuff really has no bearing on what I'm getting at, it was just one example. Ok, new subject. What would it take for the persons who understand a part of the kernel to add comments when they run into uncommented code? I'm not concerned about user land too much, there is not much magic there, but the kernel.... Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1