[JDEV] why mod_basic_*?

[John P. Looney]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0600, Thomas Charron mentioned:
> Quoting Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>:
> > Why does jabber-transport/modules/basic/*.c name all its functions
> > "mod_basic_FOO"?  By virtue of being in basic, the function should be
> > assumed to be part of the basic module.  Why not just call the
> > function "FOO"?
>   You very well could.  But for simplicity, since we *ARE* dealing with shared
> libraries here, it's better when looking at logs, etc, to be able to have the
> module data along with the function.  We may have 5 modules loaded, and looking
> at the debugging data is a whole lot easier if we can see the module in the
> function name..  Otherwise, you may get two or three messages from different
> modules, all with the same function name, and be rather hard to debug.

 Speaking of, is there a development version of an SQL authentication
module...

Kate

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