[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] mkfs: Remove duplicated code from verify_bsize()

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 15:44 -0300, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> My apologies for my delay, I was on PTO.
> 
> > are_you_sure() doesn't really belong in libgfs2 because it's user
> > interface code and it has exit() calls (via die()). You might want
> > to read bz408631 to see where libgfs2 is heading.
> > 
> Gotcha will look.
> > >+/*Function prototypes*/
> > 
> > Minor point, but I personally dislike comments like this. Everyone
> > knows what a function prototype looks like :)
> > 
> Indeed. I added it mainly to "make it clear" but I agree in do not add
> this comment.
> 
> > I'm not sure that it is worth using are_you_sure() here, as it opens
> > the device again and calls check_dev_content() (which calls pipe()
> > and then fork() ...), which is a lot more overhead than the few
> > lines that you're removing here. Perhaps you could change
> > are_you_sure to be more generic and move the checking into a
> > separate function?
> > 
> Looks like both (Steve and Andy) agrees to remove open() call from
> are_you_sure() function, so, looks that's the best way to fix this up
> and maybe as Andy suggestion set up another function to test device open
> if necessary.
> 
> My concern here btw, is if there is any problem in add the function prototype 
> to the beginning of the file.
> 
> What you guys think?
No, I can't see any problem with that, it sounds good to me,

Steve.