Coding Guidelines

This article summarizes the "things every developer should know". This will never be an exhaustive list, but it provides a convenient, common place to share the many guidelines and suggestions that each developer has in his or her head.

See also DEVELOPING in the top-level source directory.

• /Asynchronous Programming (event-based programming)
• /Command-line Processing
• /Compiler Features
• /Configuration
• /Debugging Functions
• /Error Handling
• /File Locking
• /Filesystem Manipulation
• /Internationalization
• /IPv6 Support
• /Memory Allocation
• /Parsing Functions
• /Safely Executing Other Processes
• /String Functions

Also see:

• Perl Interface for an overview of Amanda's perl modules
• Testing to see how Amanda's testing architecture can help you

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