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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:52:36 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: code cleanup
Message-ID:  <20040429215236.GA42902@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200404291656.02104.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200404291855.i3TItUTr048530@green.homeunix.org> <200404291656.02104.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:56:02PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2004 02:55 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 April 2004 12:06 am, Alex Lyashkov wrote:
> > > > > Note that the allproc_lock protects the allproc list.  W/o the
> > > > > FOREACH_PROC macro, I can grep for 'allproc' in the source tree to
> > > > > find all users to verify locking, etc.  With the extra macro, I n=
ow
> > > > > have to do multiple greps.
> > > >
> > > > two greps is multiple ? first of FOREACH_PROC, second allproc or
> > > > combine at one grep with two -e parameters.
> > >
> > > Multiple means more than one, yes.  When I'm searching the tree when
> > > locking a structure or fields of a structure I don't usually come up =
with
> > > complex grep statements, and actually, I wouldn't find the FOREACH_FOO
> > > macro until I did the first grep anyway.  When you add lots of macros
> > > that do this you get a compounding problem.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I don't think it is good to hide things as much as
> > FOREACH_PROC_IN_SYSTEM() -- this specific instance -- does, but grep is=
 not
> > a good tool for a tree as large as FreeBSD's.  Try using cscope instead.
>=20
> I've used glimpse in the past but it is buggy.  Actually, grep -r on ssc/=
sys=20
> doesn't take that long, esp. if you do it multiple times as most of the t=
ree=20
> is still in cache for subsequent grep's (at least on my laptop).  I also =
tend=20
> to have lots (around 7 or so) trees that have work going on in them at an=
y=20
> one time.

The problem with grep -r in src/sys is that it chokes on the symlinks
created by module builds and pollutes the output with hundreds of
lines of errors unless you remember to first remove the module build
files.

Kris

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