[BusyBox] Re: ifconfig: Clean up. [PATCH]

[Rainer Weikusat]

Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail.com> writes:
> On 7/25/05, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>> > I'd to spell do_cleanup as DO_CLEANUP. If I saw...
>> >  if (DO_CLEANUP)
>> > ... I'd understand it was a conditional compilation. If I saw...
>> >  if (do_cleanup)
>> 
>> I was actually thinking of a static const int.
>
> Getting back to the original thread of conversation, here's an
> implementation of my previous idea. I rather like the consistency this
> method offers.

[...]

> +#ifndef CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
> +static const int CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP = 0;
> +#endif

[...]


> +	if (CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP) close(sockfd);
>   	return goterr;
>  }

What is this supposed to accomplish, besides inflating the binary for
no reason?