Re: What is a "baton" from subversion sources?

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Grigory Petrov <grigory.v.p_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm learning subversion API right now and examining it's source code and
> examples. It's a lot of things in subversion source code that is called a
> "baton". For example, svn_cmdline_create_auth_baton() create "auth baton",
> and callbacks takes callback function pointer and, again, batons. I never
> heard of a term "baton" related to the programming. That is the "baton"
> concept subversion source code refers to? Maybe i can read somewhere about
> "batons" used in programming? Or is it a well-known term of some origin?
>

Probably dev list will be better place to ask such questions.

>
> Best,
> Grigory.
>

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