Fwd: RFR: 7165755 OS Information much longer on linux than other platforms

[Nils Loodin]

Lists accidentally dropped of here.

For the official record, Davd Holmes, are you hereby happy with the state of my changes and ready to stand by that as an official reviewer? :)

Regards,
Nils Loodin

Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
> Subject: Re: RFR: 7165755 OS Information much longer on linux than other platforms
> Date: May 11, 2012 12:52:12 GMT+02:00
> To: Nils Loodin <nils.loodin at oracle.com>
> 
> On 11/05/2012 5:22 PM, Nils Loodin wrote:
>>> Missed one:
>>> 
>>> 39 #include "os_linux.hpp"
>>> 
>> Gah. Indeed.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Do we want the initial st->print("OS:") on the brief info the way we
>>> have on the full info?
>> I judged no, due to the fact that this would (well in our case anyway,
>> but I thought generally) be used by other tools to get a brief info.
>> They would then have that string as a label in a gui, or something else.
>> Or if they want to print somewhere, they should print that string on
>> their own.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>> About OS_xx.cpp including OS_xx.hpp, I feel I'm missing something.. can
>> you please help me say why that's a no-no? And what does it have to do
>> with the old included implementation?
> 
> It isn't that it is wrong, it's that it hasn't been necessary. So I was wondering why it was now necessary, as if it had been necessary I would have expected it to be done when the old include system got converted. I think these files only need include the generic os.hpp and that it turn will include the platform specific ones.
> 
>> Changing the above, are you ok with the changes?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Though we should probably be having this conversation on the open lists ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> David
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nils Loodin
>> 
>> 
>> 

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