Re: [PATCH gwproxy v7 0/2] Initial work on integration of DNS parser lib in gwproxy

[Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM Ahmad Gani wrote:
> Perhaps I should use a script to check whether the files adhere to the
> required rules and patterns. Do you know of any existing tools or scripts
> that perform such checks?

There are several ways to check for it:

1) The easiest way is to turn on the regex search. You can find this
pattern in your epoll.c:

(^|.)\s+$

It will match trailing whitespaces.

2) Try to apply your own patches with 'git am'. It will yell at you if
there are whitespaces.

3) In the Linux kernel, there is a script called checkpatch.pl. It can
detect trailing whitespaces and other trivial formatting errors. I
don't usually use it, though.

  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/checkpatch.pl

Unfortunately, it must be run from the root directory of the kernel
tree. So you need to git clone the entire kernel tree to use it. Maybe
it can be modified to run outside of the kernel tree, but I don't
think it's worth it. Not that urgent anyway.

-- 
Ammar Faizi