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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: New winsup snapshot 3/25/98
13 Apr 1998 18:30:37 -0700 :
Message-ID: <199804140122.SAA27285.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@skaro.cygnus.com>
References: <199803260354 DOT WAA05939 AT hardy DOT bbc DOT com>
To: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to track down all uses of 's' for stuff other than
> shared memory but I've come to the conclusion that that is a fruitless
> battle.  I don't think that global variables should be named with
> single characters.  What do you think about changing s-> and, possibly,
> u-> to something like cygwin_shared and user_data?
[...]

I agree, single-letter variable names suck!  FYI, I'm in the middle of
renaming these to the names you suggested.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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