[PATCH] New client/monitor attributes
Florian Bruhin
me at the-compiler.org
Fri Oct 4 06:56:56 CEST 2013
Heya,
it's been a while, but I finally updated these patches :)
(yay, first real post in the new ml!)
* Thorsten Wißmann <edu at thorsten-wissmann.de> [2013-06-24 12:53:26 +0200]:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > The pid attribute will be -1 if the client didn't set it, I'm not sure
> > if this is the best solution, or if I should handle this attribute as
> > a custom string instead, and return an empty string if there is no pid
> > set. Opinions?
>
> I'd prefer the -1 option (and document it in the manpage)
>
> You also could add some description of the attributes to the manpage
> (there's already a OBJECTS section[1] describing the attributes)
Done.
> > HSAttribute attributes[] = {
> > + ATTRIBUTE_STRING( "tag", client->tag->display_name, ATTR_READ_ONLY),
>
> This looks wrong, because ATTRIBUTE_STRING remembers the address of the
> string you gave it. So in your case this attribute will always give the
> name of the tag the client initially was on (and it should crash as soon
> as the initial tag is removed). I recommend using a custom string
> attribute here. (ATTRIBUTE_STRING only works for strings whose address
> is constant during the livetime of the object or client in this case).
Also done, didn't know about that, seemed logical like I did it :)
I have to apologize about the quality of the previous patches, I was
sending out patches to the ML and was like "oh, that's also finished
and seems to work, let's send it out" without actually really testing
it :-/
Flo
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