From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:30:52 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document some formerly undocumented functions.
X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.2.6-alpha~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=465d4e1cd10a995cff571b42b4f008811590c314;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git

Document some formerly undocumented functions.
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diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index d05c308fe8..8f10d2175c 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -2307,7 +2307,8 @@ expand_filename(const char *filename)
 
 #define MAX_SCANF_WIDTH 9999
 
-/** DOCDOC */
+/** Helper: given an ASCII-encoded decimal digit, return its numeric value.
+ * NOTE: requires that its input be in-bounds. */
 static int
 digit_to_num(char d)
 {
@@ -2316,7 +2317,10 @@ digit_to_num(char d)
   return num;
 }
 
-/** DOCDOC */
+/** Helper: Read an unsigned int from *<b>bufp</b> of up to <b>width</b>
+ * characters.  (Handle arbitrary width if <b>width</b> is less than 0.)  On
+ * success, store the result in <b>out</b>, advance bufp to the next
+ * character, and return 0.  On failure, return -1. */
 static int
 scan_unsigned(const char **bufp, unsigned *out, int width)
 {
@@ -2343,7 +2347,9 @@ scan_unsigned(const char **bufp, unsigned *out, int width)
   return 0;
 }
 
-/** DOCDOC */
+/** Helper: copy up to <b>width</b> non-space characters from <b>bufp</b> to
+ * <b>out</b>.  Make sure <b>out</b> is nul-terminated. Advance <b>bufp</b>
+ * to the next non-space character or the EOS. */
 static int
 scan_string(const char **bufp, char *out, int width)
 {
@@ -2432,7 +2438,12 @@ tor_vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *pattern, va_list ap)
  * and store the results in the corresponding argument fields.  Differs from
  * sscanf in that it: Only handles %u and %Ns.  Does not handle arbitrarily
  * long widths. %u does not consume any space.  Is locale-independent.
- * Returns -1 on malformed patterns. */
+ * Returns -1 on malformed patterns.
+ *
+ * (As with other local-independent functions, we need this to parse data that
+ * is in ASCII without worrying that the C library's locale-handling will make
+ * miscellaneous characters look like numbers, spaces, and so on.)
+ */
 int
 tor_sscanf(const char *buf, const char *pattern, ...)
 {
diff --git a/src/or/routerlist.c b/src/or/routerlist.c
index 0a32f78a69..77b8f1d9bf 100644
--- a/src/or/routerlist.c
+++ b/src/or/routerlist.c
@@ -5034,7 +5034,9 @@ routerset_parse(routerset_t *target, const char *s, const char *description)
   return r;
 }
 
-/** DOCDOC */
+/** Called when we change a node set, or when we reload the geoip list:
+ * recompute all country info in all configuration node sets and in the
+ * routerlist. */
 void
 refresh_all_country_info(void)
 {