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Re: Utility functions
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Dmitry Bogatov |
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Re: Utility functions |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:24:18 +0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:58 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Yes, something like that could be useful, though this
> particular example won't work since xstrdup takes just
> one arg.
Yes, I meant `strndup()'. Well, then I will begin work to make new
module with functions like this. Is assingment must-have? It is in
progress now.
> > In it, there is pretty untrivial code for getting home directory in
> > non-GNU systems.
> That might be useful as a module, yes.
Okay. I think it will be pretty easy to decompose it from wget.
> I don't know about that one (I don't know what a .netrc file is....).
Take a look. http://www.mavetju.org/unix/netrc.php
> > And, another, unrelated question, why gl_INIT macro begins with
> > small letters?
> It's somewhat arbitrary, but at this point that convention is
> pretty common (gl_XALLOC, gl_YIELD, etc.) so I wouldn't mess
> with it.
What about patch to provide aliases?
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