On (02/02/09 00:41), Peter Memishian wrote: > > I used ofmt_ (for output format) for the ones in ipmpstat. Admittedly > it's not immediately pronouncable (I say "o-format"), though "fmt" is a > well-established abbreviation for "format". oformat_() might be > preferable if we're willing to trade some line wraps for spoken clarity. > > I don't know why some of the routines as libinetutil sprouted iu_ > prefixes; it seems unfortunate as there were already clear conventions > (e.g., eh_ and tq_ for the event handler and timer queue objects I wrote > forever ago) and further it was not consistently applied (such a > ifparse_ifspec()). I've ignored that convention when adding to > libinetutil (witness ifaddrlistx()).
I have no particular attachment to any name, as long as it doesn't have namespace conflicts, and doesn't grossly violate existing conventions. > As an aside, there's not really anything networking-specific about these > output format routines, so libinetutil seems more of a rest stop than a > final destination. --Sowmini
