Improved description of the tmon.out format.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / NetWare / NWUtil.c

diff --git a/NetWare/NWUtil.c b/NetWare/NWUtil.c
index ea0e485..f23774a 100644 (file)
--- a/NetWare/NWUtil.c
+++ b/NetWare/NWUtil.c
@@ -472,15 +472,16 @@ void fnAppendArgument(PCOMMANDLINEPARSER pclp, char *new_arg)
        strcpy(pclp->m_argv[pclp->m_argc], new_arg);    // Appended the new argument.
        pclp->m_argc++;         // Increment the number of parameters appended.
 
-       // The char array is emptied for all elements upto the end so that there are no junk characters.
-       // If this is not done, then the issue is like this:
+       // The char array is emptied for all elements upto the end so that there are no
+       // junk characters. If this is not done, then the issue is like this:
        // - Simple perl command like "perl" on the system console works fine for the first time.
-       // - When it is given the second time, a new blank screen should come up which also
-       //   allows for editing. This was not consistently working well.
-       //   More so when the command was like, "perl   ", that is the name "perl"
-       //   followed by a few blank spaces. It used to give error in opening file and
-       //   would give some junk as the filename unable to open.
-       // Once the below fix was done, it is working fine.
+       // - When "perl" is executed the second time, a new blank screen should come up
+       //   which allows for editing also. This was not consistently working well.
+       //   More so when the command was like, "perl   ", that is the name "perl" followed
+       //   by a few blank spaces, it used to give error in opening file:
+       //   "unable to open the file" since the filename would have some junk characters.
+       // 
+       // These issues are fixed through the code below.
        for(i=pclp->m_argc; i<pclp->m_argv_len; i++)
                strncpy(pclp->m_argv[i], "", (MAX_DN_BYTES * sizeof(char)));    // MAX_DN_BYTES is the size of pclp->m_argv[].
 
@@ -755,11 +756,16 @@ char* fnMy_MkTemp(char* templatestr)
                        pPid = numbuf;
 
 /**
-               Backtick operation uses temp files that are stored under DEFPERLTEMP directory.
-               They are temporarily used and then cleaned up after usage.
-               In the process of operation to allow for more temp files, the below logic is used.
-               This allows 26 files (like, pla00015.tmp through plz00015.tmp) plus
-               26x26=676 (like, plaa0015.tmp through plzz0015.tmp)
+               Backtick operation uses temp files that are stored under NWDEFPERLTEMP
+               directory. They are temporarily used and then cleaned up after usage.
+               In cases where multiple backtick operations are used that call some
+               complex scripts, new temp files will be created before the old ones are
+               deleted. So, we need to have a provision to create many temp files.
+               Hence the below logic. It is found that provision for 26 files may
+               not be enough in some cases.
+
+               This below logic allows 26 files (like, pla00015.tmp through plz00015.tmp)
+               plus 6x26=676 (like, plaa0015.tmp through plzz0015.tmp)
 **/
 
                letter = 'a';