[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] gfs2: better code for translating characters

[rae l <crquan@gmail.com>]

On 8/13/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> You seem to have confused modern compiled C with an old BASIC interpreter.
>
> Consider the code in point:
>
> -       while ((table = strchr(sdp->sd_table_name, '/')))
> +       table = sdp->sd_table_name;
> +       while ((table = strchr(table, '/')))
>                 *table = '_';
Sorry, I just mean for call to strchr, things are different,
especially for multiple '/' chars appeared.

The while loop's purpose is to translate all '/' chars appeared in
sdp->sd_table_name to '_' chars, consider the string:
'a////aa/a/a/...'
if strchr called with sdp->sd_table_name, every strchr would begun at
index 0 of the string, but if called with table, every strchr begun at
the last searched position.

So I wonder the common case is no existence of '/', or just one or
multiple existence? Things are different for these cases.