Re: [PATCH 01/02] ident.c: Use const qualifier when possible

["Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>]

Em Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:14:57 -0700
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> escreveu:

| Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
| 
| > On Sunday 2007, April 15, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
| >
| >> -static const char *env_hint =
| >> +static const char const *env_hint =
| >
| > You can see then that
| >
| >  const char const *env_hint
| >
| > is redundant, it's simply saying twice that (*env_hint) is const.
| 
| I think he wanted to say
| 
| 	static const char *const env_hint = ...

 Urgh, yes. And it's not possible to make the pointer const
because we change the value it points to (-2 for me).

 Updated version follows. I don't need to send the second
again, right?

From: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Subject: [PATCH] ident.c: Use const qualifier for 'struct passwd' parameters

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
---
 ident.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index bb03bdd..b557ecd 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 static char git_default_date[50];
 
-static void copy_gecos(struct passwd *w, char *name, int sz)
+static void copy_gecos(const struct passwd *w, char *name, int sz)
 {
 	char *src, *dst;
 	int len, nlen;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static void copy_gecos(struct passwd *w, char *name, int sz)
 
 }
 
-static void copy_email(struct passwd *pw)
+static void copy_email(const struct passwd *pw)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Make up a fake email address
-- 
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