>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=&defs=&refs=lock&path=/clearview/clearview/usr/src/uts/common/io/drm/drm_lock.c&hist=&project=/clearview >> >> >> 4 of the search results that are shown on the results page are in >> comments, and another 1 is in a quoted string. Clearly, these are not >> symbol references and don't belong in the results list. Is this >> documented anywhere as a known bug or a limitation? I can't find any >> bugs or forum posts about this.
If you search for a symbol and a file is listed, it means that the file contains symbols. Otherwise it would not have been listed. Lines containing a definition of the symbol have the type of symbol in bold green on the right end. In this case it says "local". The matching lines show all occurrences of the symbol. If a comment contains the symbol it is most likely relevant to what is being searched, unless the symbol happens to be common word. It is not exactly a bug, but the code that shows the matching line does no go deep into parsing out the comments or string literals. Doing so may slowdown the results. Thanks, -Chandan
