Re: [PATCH] Rename warn() to warning() to fix symbol conflicts on BSD and Mac OS

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2007, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID: <863b3lfozg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejn5ygkc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

Junio> I'd take this for now, but I wonder where we should stop. If Junio> somebody exports error() or die(), would we end up renaming them Junio> to git_error() and git_die()?

I realize you may see it as a slippery slope, but I haven't heard anything else reported yet, and git has already been ported quite a bit. But since C has a flat namespace, this will always be a problem.

Picking a name like warn(3) was probably dumb on bsd's part, but it *is* a generic call like perror(3).

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