Unbreaking allbareconfig (svn 16125).

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Sun Sep 17 15:16:21 UTC 2006


hi,
just a reminder that paths.h contains:
 _PATH_TTY       "/dev/tty"
 _PATH_CONSOLE   "/dev/console"

i am just intending to prevent to invent that wheel again.

re,
 wh



Rob Landley wrote:

> 
> CURRENT_TTY, CONSOLE_DEV: I'm not really a big fan of taking small simple 
> strings that aren't going to change and jumping through hoops to make an 
> object out of them that you have to look up.  The compiler and linker should 
> be smart enough to merge duplicate strings.  I suspect that with build all 
> files at once mode they may actually be able to, I don't know.  I'm all for 
> merging duplicate strings that might have slightly different variants used 
> and thus the compiler would be unable to merge them no matter how smart it 
> got.  But "/dev/tty" is unlikely to suffer from unnecessary variation.  I'd 
> just wire it straight into the apps in question as a string literal.
> 
> Rob



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