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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/32138: better progress reporting for dump(8) 
Message-ID:  <200111201940.fAKJe1p92252@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/32138; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, arr@FreeBSD.org,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/32138: better progress reporting for dump(8) 
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:30:20 -0500 (EST)

 On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ian Dowse wrote:
 
 :In message <200111201907.fAKJ7bO40025@aldan.algebra.com>, Mikhail Teterin write
 :s:
 :
 :>How about this:
 :
 :Much better! Two comments:
 :
 :>+void
 :>+infosch(int signal) {
 :>+	/*
 :>+	 * 300 seconds -- 5 minutes -- is the magical constant,
 :>+	 * only used in this file
 :>+	 */
 :>+	if (tschedule > 300)
 :>+		tschedule -= 300;
 :>+}
 :
 :If "tschedule = 0" will work here instead, then I'd suggest using
 :that to avoid the magic constant.
 :
 :>+ * A side effect of this function, is it replaces the final '\n' (if any)
 :>+ * with the '\0' in the global variable lastmsg -- to avoid the literal
 :>+ * "\n" being put into the proctitle.
 :>+ * So, if the lastmsg needs to be output elsewhere, that should happen
 :>+ * before calling title().
 :
 :You can avoid this side-effect by telling setproctitle not to print
 :the last character, i.e:
 :
 :	lastlen = strlen(lastmsg);
 :	if (lastlen > 0 && lastmsg[lastlen - 1] == '\n')
 :		lastlen--;
 :	setproctitle("%s: %.*s", disk, lastlen, lastmsg);
 :
 :Ian
 :
 
 setproctitle() should not even be used in the handler.
 
 --
 Andrew R. Reiter
 arr@watson.org
 arr@FreeBSD.org
 

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