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Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 1/5] tracing/kprobes: Rename special variables syntax
- From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis dot org>
- To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, lkml <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, DLE <dle-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat dot com>, Mike Galbraith <efault at gmx dot de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>, Peter Zijlstra <a dot p dot zijlstra at chello dot nl>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:12:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 1/5] tracing/kprobes: Rename special variables syntax
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- Reply-to: rostedt at goodmis dot org
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 21:26 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:59:01PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > As far as I can see in arch/*/include/asm/ptrace.h, all registers start with
> > alphabets :-). So, I'd like to suggest renaming sp-vars to '_sp-vars'.
> >
> > Then, we will have;
> > - $local-vars
>
>
> There is a risk of bash collision.
I actually prefer the "$" notation. As for bash collision, it is common
for shell script writers to be able to distinguish a variable from bash.
Yes we can backslash it, or quote it. But when I see a $var it sticks
out to me that it is a variable. It's not hard to get around. For
example, type:
$ echo "hello $DISPLAY"' or $DISPLAY'
and see what you get.
Makefiles and Perl use '$' for variables those that need to handle it
with bash can easily cope with it.
So my vote is to keep the '$'. It is the most intuitive to what it
means.
Just my 0.02€
-- Steve