Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.

From: cpghost <cpghost_at_cordula.ws>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:55:18 -0600
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:23:47PM +0000, Antonio Gonz?lez Castro wrote:
> Hi, I'm not sure this is interesting or useful, but I translated devd daemon
> from C++ to C.

Why would you want to do that? IMHO, the code in
/usr/src/sbin/devd/devd.cc is beautiful, concise
and very readable.

> Is it useful for something, or have I been wasting my time for nothing?

What's the size of your C version of /sbin/devd? The statically
linked C++ version is 402080 bytes on my amd64 system:

% ls -l `which devd`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  402080 May  4 10:24 /sbin/devd

and it will probably be less if written in C. That's the only
advantage I see in translating C++ code to C code. For everything
that's dynamically linked, I don't really see the point (with
the exception of very few special cases).

-cpghost.

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