[Libvir] [PATCH] Clean up the global name space.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 14 12:33:56 UTC 2008


Jim Meyering wrote:
> After mentioning "avoid global variables" as a potential
> addition to HACKING, I did some quick tests and spotted
> a few that are easy to eliminate.  This is useful even
> if we don't end up automating the check:
> 
> 	Clean up the global name space.
> 	* src/qemu_conf.c: Add "static" and "const" attributes to some globals.
> 	* src/qemu_conf.h: Update a declaration.
> 	* src/qemu_driver.c (qemud_driver): Declare static.

+1.

These structures were originally shared between files, but lots of code 
refactoring since seems to make that obsolete.

Rich.

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