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Re: [pcp] What does "sts" stand for?

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] What does "sts" stand for?
From: Paul Colby <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:18:35 +1000
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Thanks Ken :)

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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/05/14 21:39, Paul Colby wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm just curious... in various places, such as the pmdaCache man page,
>> and the Simple PMDA example, PCP API return values are assigned to
>> variables called "sts".  I understand that this, usually at least, an
>> integer such that negative values indicate errors, etc, but I'm just
>> curious as to the choice of the three letters "sts".  Do they stand
>> for something in particular?
>
>
>
> G'day Paul.
>
> It is a truncation of status ... from the days of FortranIV and punched
> cards long before VeryLongCamelCaseVariableNames became popular.
>
> Blame me.
>
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