[LTP] [PATCH v4 2/9] lib: split tst_fill_file() to create new tst_fill_fd()

Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Thu Feb 21 14:36:18 CET 2019


On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:04:42PM +0100, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> > > -int tst_fill_file(const char *path, char pattern, size_t bs, size_t bcount)
> > > +int tst_fill_fd(int fd, char pattern, size_t bs, size_t bcount)
> > >  {
> > > -	int fd;
> > > -	size_t counter;
> > > +	size_t i;
> > 
> > Nitpicking perhaps but gratuitous variable renames don't make patches
> > containing other changes easier to read. Nor, to be honest, does 
> > "counter" seem any more descriptive then i (since i is more idiomatic
> > and therefore quicker to read).
> 
> It seems you misread the patch as we are replacing the counter with i
> here and I asked for that since i is the idiomatic way of naming loop
> variables, so all the blame for this change goes to me :-).

Quite right. I misread it. Sorry for the noise.


Daniel.

> 
> -- 
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz


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