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Re: pmServiceDiscoveryInterrupt() commit a8b87e2 et al.

To: Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pmServiceDiscoveryInterrupt() commit a8b87e2 et al.
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:32:30 -0400
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <53BE9F30.7010106@xxxxxxxxxx> (Dave Brolley's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:12:00 -0400")
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brolley wrote:

> [...]
> I think that the double underscore prefix is a reasonable buffer
> against invasive change and will probably go with that.

Do we have any documentation that gives programmers any sense of what
we mean by double-underscoring?  We have lots of such functions in the
pcp-devel headers, exported from the .so's for ABI preservation, many
even with man-page documentation.

- FChE

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