cvs commit: src/sys/vfs/hpfs hpfs_vnops.c

Devon H. O'Dell dodell at offmyserver.com
Sun Aug 21 04:46:09 PDT 2005


On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:40:40PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> On 20.08.2005, at 20:37, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> >joerg       2005/08/20 11:37:21 PDT
> >
> >DragonFly src repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/vfs/hpfs         hpfs_vnops.c
> >  Log:
> >  HPFS != UFS, so use the right constant for directory entries. Check
> >  explicitly for wraparound or negative offsets, don't depend on type
> >  limits to do that.
> [diff]
> >-	 * As we need to fake up . and .., and the remaining directory 
> >structure
> >-	 * can't be expressed in one off_t as well, we just increment 
> >uio_offset
> >-	 * by 1 for each entry.
> >-	 *
> 
> why did you remove this comment I just put in?  I think having 
> explaining comments especially in source that don't get touched every 
> day by the average developer are very helpful and ease understanding 
> the code a big deal.  Please put it back.

Perhaps not my realm, but +1. If the comment is unclear, it should
be clarified, not removed. If the comment is obviated by the code,
this is a different story. I don't really think this is the full
case here.

-Devon
 
> cheers
>   simon
> 
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