Re: Matchbox 0.5rc1

on Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:59:39PM -0500, Ty Sarna wrote:
> Yay! And looks like you already did the rest of my wishlist in 0.5.
> Though I have come up with a new wishlist item: the ability to
> programatically launch/pop-to-front a monolaunch. Perhaps an option that
> would tell it to write a pid file, and the have kill -HUP or -USR1 or
> something on the pid simulate a button push.
> 
> This is good if you want bootup/login/whatever to come up with an app
> already running, but you want a click on it's button to pop it to front
> again instead of staring a second copy.
> 

Im sorry but Im not sure what you mean - you want to start an app
automatically ( in your .xinitrc or whatever ), but have monolaunch be
able to hide/show it aswell ?

> 
> BTW, I started working on NetBSD package for 0.5.  Looks like some of
> the build issues I ran into with 0.4 are already fixed.  One of the
> remaining issues is that NetBSD doesn't have strndup.  After
> investigating this function, I consider this a good thing, as nobody
> even among the Linux people can seem to agree on what the semantics
> are...  does it:
> 
> 	allocate N and strncpy?
> 	allocate N and strlcpy?
> 	allocate N+1 and strncpy or memcpy and add \0?
> 	allocate as much as needed, but at most n and strncpy?
> 	allocate as much as needed, but at most n and strlcpy?
> 	allocate as much as needed, but at most n+1 and add \0?
> 	
> and my favorite:
> 
> 	have comments describing one of the variants above, but
> 	code that tries to implement another, but with bugs.
> 
> (It's left as an excersize to the reader to google around and see who
> implements what variant -- I count versions implementing at least 3 of
> the above.)
> 
> My suggestion is to figure out what semantics you actually need, write a
> new function with a new name that implements them, and use that. strndup
> should be avoided until people can agree on what the hell it actually
> does, IMHO :-)

Yep, no problem - its only called a couple of times. Consider it
removed for the next rc / 0.5 full release.

Any other netBSD issues ?

  -- Matthew