Re: [bug-inetutils] [PATCH] remove globals from hostname

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Going by Sergey's advice on another thread, I tried to reduce the
>   number of globals used in hostname. Here is an initial patch.
>
> I am neither for or against this, reducing the number of globals is
> all good and well, but for a small program (like most of our programs)
> it makes little sense to me.  So I really don't care much, feel free
> to do what you consider best.

Reducing globals lets us consider turning most of this into a library
at some point with a lower risk of namespace conflicts, and such.

Not necessarily an explicit goal at the moment, but certainly not a
bad thing to hack on.

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