From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:34:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: a few documentation and naming convention updates
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a few documentation and naming convention updates
Notable: the argument to make REPORTER has been renamed to TRIALARGS.
---

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0b76fefc..7bf94257 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@ check-pyopenssl-dep:
 # too.
 TEST=allmydata
 
-# use 'make test REPORTER=--reporter=bwverbose' from buildbot, to
+# use 'make test TRIALARGS=--reporter=bwverbose' from buildbot, to
 # suppress the ansi color sequences
 
 test: .built .checked-deps
 	$(PP) \
-	 $(TRIAL) $(REPORTER) $(TEST)
+	 $(TRIAL) $(TRIALARGS) $(TEST)
 
 test-figleaf: .built .checked-deps
 	rm -f .figleaf
diff --git a/misc/simulator.py b/misc/simulator.py
index 36133b66..adf674de 100644
--- a/misc/simulator.py
+++ b/misc/simulator.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class Node:
         self.introducer.delete(fileid)
         return True
 
-class IntroducerAndVdrive:
+class Introducer:
     def __init__(self, simulator):
         self.living_files = {}
         self.utilization = 0 # total size of all active files
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class Simulator:
         self.rrd = RRD("/tmp/utilization.rrd", ds=[ds], rra=[rra], start=self.time)
         self.rrd.create()
 
-        self.introducer = q = IntroducerAndVdrive(self)
+        self.introducer = q = Introducer(self)
         self.all_nodes = [Node(randomid(), q, self)
                           for i in range(self.NUM_NODES)]
         q.all_nodes = self.all_nodes
diff --git a/src/allmydata/encode.py b/src/allmydata/encode.py
index 7328e238..1aeb93c4 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/encode.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/encode.py
@@ -17,16 +17,16 @@ The goal of the encoder is to turn the original file into a series of
 is a different host, but for small grids there may be overlap). The number
 of shares is chosen to hit our reliability goals (more shares on more
 machines means more reliability), and is limited by overhead (proportional to
-numshares or log(numshares)) and the encoding technology in use (Reed-Solomon
-only permits 256 shares total). It is also constrained by the amount of data
+numshares or log(numshares)) and the encoding technology in use (zfec permits
+only 256 shares total). It is also constrained by the amount of data
 we want to send to each host. For estimating purposes, think of 10 shares
 out of which we need 3 to reconstruct the file.
 
 The encoder starts by cutting the original file into segments. All segments
 except the last are of equal size. The segment size is chosen to constrain
 the memory footprint (which will probably vary between 1x and 4x segment
-size) and to constrain the overhead (which will be proportional to either the
-number of segments or log(number of segments)).
+size) and to constrain the overhead (which will be proportional to
+log(number of segments)).
 
 
 Each segment (A,B,C) is read into memory, encrypted, and encoded into
diff --git a/src/allmydata/test/test_web.py b/src/allmydata/test/test_web.py
index 974ac69b..8249e101 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/test/test_web.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/test/test_web.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 import re, os.path, urllib
 import simplejson
 from twisted.application import service
diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py b/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py
index 4024eddf..f5e245d0 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ try:
         try:
             current = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)
         except AttributeError:
-            # we're probably missing RLIMIT_NOFILE, maybe this is windows
+            # we're probably missing RLIMIT_NOFILE
             return
 
         if current[0] >= 1024: