Re: marking tapset files

[Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com>]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>Hi -
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>On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:14:11AM -0700, Mike Mason wrote:
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>>I like the idea of adding the comment.  Mechanical enforcement would be 
>>even better.  Perhaps a keyword at the top of the file that marks it as 
>>part of a specific tapset.  [...]
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>That's a possibility.  Short of language extensions though, the
>translator could parse the tapset scripts first, then warn about
>duplication.  Heck, it could even track the visited dev/inode pairs in
>struct stapfile, and know if the same file has been seen twice.
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>- FChE
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Yes, translator can find out if same file is visted twice but with that 
can we give a meaningful error message to the user. I think what is 
needed here is when someone tries to execute a tapset they should gate 
message saying you can not execute a tapset library directly, similar to 
an error message given if we execute a library file. It would be even 
better if we can do something with our naming so that users can say the 
difference between the library and the end user script and avoid doing 
that mistake in the first place.