Re: [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH] support: delete unused code

[Mike Frysinger]

On 06 Oct 2015 19:31, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> On Tue,  6 Oct 2015 17:45:07 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Using the vulture tool (and verifying a bit with `git grep`),
> > delete various bits of code from this module that aren't used.
> > ---
> >  catalyst/support.py | 28 ----------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/catalyst/support.py b/catalyst/support.py
> > index f184ed7..62be63a 100644
> > --- a/catalyst/support.py
> > +++ b/catalyst/support.py
> > @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
> >
> >  import glob
> >  import sys
> > -import string  # pylint: disable=deprecated-module
> >  import os
> >  import types
> >  import re
> > @@ -11,35 +10,8 @@ from subprocess import Popen
> >
> >  from catalyst.defaults import verbosity, valid_config_file_values
> >
> > -selinux_capable = False
> > -#userpriv_capable = (os.getuid() == 0)
> > -#fakeroot_capable = False
> > -
> >  BASH_BINARY             = "/bin/bash"
> >
> > -# set it to 0 for the soft limit, 1 for the hard limit
> > -DESIRED_RLIMIT = 0
> > -try:
> > -	import resource
> > -
> > max_fd_limit=resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[DESIRED_RLIMIT]
> > -except Exception:
> > -	# hokay, no resource module.
> > -	max_fd_limit=256
>
> Are you sure this is not needed?  Because I recall having to fix the
> code because the API had changed, otherwise I couldn't get catalyst to
> run.  But to be honest, catalyst is the only place I've seen this ever
> used.  And so it is likely not needed.

as long as we can assume that nothing is importing catalyst,
i can't see code that uses these things

picking max_fd_limit randomly, it was used until this commit:
36610754ba2daca723064021001c5128d83e8f21
where things were gutted significantly.

same goes for selinux_capable
-mike