Re: [patch] ipc/msg.c: clean up coding style

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Let's not go BSD way.
> > 
> > again, lets not have overlong line 80 prototypes.
> 
> I thought Linus gave his blessing for long lines for prototypes (up to 
> 120 chars?), to make it easier to grep the code for function 
> prototypes.

i think that's a tool issue. If you need multiline grep, use the 'mg' 
perl-script from:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/mg_multi_line_grep/

for example, to see all syscall prototypes in kernel/*.c:

  mg -e "asmlinkage.*\n*.*sys.*\n*.*{" kernel/*.c

	Ingo
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