[Libvir] [PATCH] * qemud/remote.c: Don't include <getopt.h>. Not used.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Mar 19 13:50:27 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:25:33PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:11:18PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:08:44PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > I had a few in-progress changes from a week or two ago,
> > > and am clearing the decks.
> > > 
> > > I added a new build-checking rule (coming separately)
> > > and it exposed an unnecessary include:
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > So we have a way to find header files which are unused?
> 
> No - this is impossible unless you have a copy of every OS we've ever
> tested on. It may be unused on Linux, but may be needed on Solaris, etc
> etc. Removing <getopt.h> is an obviously safe action, but in general
> we should be wary of removing supposedly unused heads.

Surely we can do it for POSIX calls?

Of course the OS / libc itself may not obey POSIX ...

Rich.

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