[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: Perl guidelines - other patches to Perl section of devel guidelines

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

Please find attached trival patch to the developer guidelines Perl 
plugin section.

Manure removal only (much of it originated from me).

Yours sincerely.


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Stanley Hopcroft

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--- developer-guidelines.html	Mon Nov 22 15:44:02 2004
+++ developer-guidelines.html.orig	Mon Nov 22 13:34:44 2004
@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@
 ><LI
 ><P
 >To use utils.pm, you need to provide a full path to the
-			module in order for it to work.</P
+			module in order for it to work with ePN.</P
 ><P
 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 >	  e.g.<br>
@@ -1058,14 +1058,11 @@
 ></LI
 ><LI
 ><P
->Do not use <DATA> file handles (these simply do not compile under ePN).</P
+>Do not use > DATA < (these simply do not compile under ePN).</P
 ></LI
 ><LI
 ><P
->Do not use global variables in subroutines.
-
-This is bad practise anyway, but with ePN the plugin may return a warning or error "<global_var> won't stay shared" (because the subroutine becomes a closure with ePN).
-</P
+>Do not use named subroutines</P
 ></LI
 ><LI
 ><P
@@ -1089,7 +1086,7 @@
 			resources.  Use of the <I
 CLASS="EMPHASIS"
 >alarm</I
-> is recommended, noting that some modules such as LWP manage their own timers using <I CLASS="EMPHASIS">alarm</I>. In that case, your alarm will be overwritten by the module.
+> is recommended.
 			Plugins may import a default time out ($TIMEOUT) from utils.pm.
 			</P
 ></LI
@@ -1464,4 +1461,4 @@
 ></DIV
 ></BODY
 ></HTML
->
+>
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