[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/3] pacman/util.c: use switch when there are fall through statements

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 3 19:29:31 EDT 2013


On 03/09/13 06:30, Sami Kerola wrote:
> An 'if' clause with empty statement is allowed, but unusual construct.
> When 'if' is used this way the statement should at least have orphan
> semicolon ';'.  For empty statements 'switch' feels like a native way
> express what is meant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa at iki.fi>
> ---
>  src/pacman/util.c | 15 ++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c
> index 9eb0042..6035963 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/util.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/util.c
> @@ -190,16 +190,13 @@ int rmrf(const char *path)
>  	if(!unlink(path)) {
>  		return 0;
>  	} else {
> -		if(errno == ENOENT) {
> +		switch(errno) {
> +		case ENOENT:
>  			return 0;
> -		} else if(errno == EPERM) {
> -			/* fallthrough */
> -		} else if(errno == EISDIR) {
> -			/* fallthrough */
> -		} else if(errno == ENOTDIR) {
> -			return 1;
> -		} else {
> -			/* not a directory */
> +		case EPERM:
> +		case EISDIR:
> +			break;
> +		default:

I'd like to keep the "not a directory" comment here.

>  			return 1;
>  		}
>  
> 



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