| To: | Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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 :) pc. 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. > > _______________________________________________ > pcp mailing list > pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/pcp |
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