On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote: > - char pid[32] = { '\0' }, time[64] = { '\0' }, timeq[80] = { '\0' }; > + char pid[32], time[64], timeq[80]; I agree that the original code is not elegant, but "else foo[0] = '\0'" is also pretty ugly. It would be better to set all to the default by one line *pid = *time = *timeq = '\0'; at begin of the function. > if ((process = get_process_id(ctl))) > snprintf(pid, sizeof(pid), " %d", process); > + else > + pid[0] = '\0'; I really don't like hairy code like this. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html