[OpenAFS-devel] Fwd: [patch review] libafs solaris cleanup

Garrett Wollman wollman@csail.mit.edu
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:36 -0500


<<On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:48:08 -0500, Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com> said:

> Respectfully, I haven't seen this stylistic preference in Unix source 
> code or style guidelines (eg, Rob Pike). 

<delurk>
The Berkeley kernel style requires "return (value)"; this has carried
over into *BSD.  The parentheses are not syntactically necessary,
unlike with if, for, and while; it's clearly a matter of developer
preference.
</delurk>

-GAWollman