From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix use via symlink, make missing spelling file non-fatal
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:31:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414143110.15751.13.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141024090252.GC2910@bark>
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 10:02 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>
> [...]
> > my $P = $0;
> > -$P =~ s@(.*)/@@g;
> > -my $D = $1;
> > +my $D = dirname(abs_path($P));
>
> That changes the value of $P, I don't know if that is intended:
>
> my $D = dirname(abs_path($0));
>
> or
>
> my $D = abs_path($1);
>
> perhaps to keep $P as it was.
I did it to show the executable passed on the cmdline better.
It changes --help and some warn/die messages.
It's not particularly important either way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-24 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-22 10:43 regression: checkpatch.pl fails when called via symlink Jani Nikula
2014-10-22 12:20 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-22 13:25 ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-22 17:13 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-23 17:16 ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-23 17:29 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: fix use via symlink, make missing spelling file non-fatal Joe Perches
2014-10-23 18:52 ` Kees Cook
2014-10-24 9:02 ` Andy Whitcroft
2014-10-24 9:31 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-24 10:39 ` Andy Whitcroft
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