- Avoid leaving long-running child processes around, i.e. fork()s that
are not followed quickly by an execv() in the child. Resource
management is unclear in this case, and memory CoW will result in
- penalties in the parent much much later on.
+ unexpected penalties in the parent much much later on.
- Don't block execution for arbitrary amounts of time using usleep()
or a similar call, unless you really know what you do. Just "giving
something some time", or so is a lazy excuse. Always wait for the
proper event, instead of doing time-based poll loops.
+
+- To determine the length of a constant string "foo", don't bother
+ with sizeof("foo")-1, please use strlen("foo") directly. gcc knows
+ strlen() anyway and turns it into a constant expression if possible.