golint cleanups.

assert/assert.go

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// NoDebug, if set to true, will cause all asserts to be ignored.
+// NoDebug can be set to true to cause all asserts to be ignored.
 var NoDebug bool
 
 func die(what string, a ...string) {

cmd/utc/main.go

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ var (
 	format                   = "2006-01-02 15:04" // Format that will be used for times.
 	outFormat                = format + " MST"    // Output format.
 	tz                       = "Local"            // String descriptor for timezone.
-	fromLoc   *time.Location = time.Local         // Go time.Location for the named timezone.
+	fromLoc    = time.Local         // Go time.Location for the named timezone.
 	fromUnix  bool                                // Input times are Unix timestamps.
-	toLoc     *time.Location = time.UTC           // Go time.Location for output timezone.
+	toLoc      = time.UTC           // Go time.Location for output timezone.
 )
 
 func usage(w io.Writer) {

logging/file.go

@@ -8,10 +8,17 @@ type File struct {
 	*LogWriter
 }
 
-func (fl *File) Close() {
-	fl.fo.Close()
+// Close calls close on the underlying log files.
+func (fl *File) Close() error {
+	if fl.fo != nil {
+		if err := fl.fo.Close(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		fl.fo = nil
+	}
+
 	if fl.fe != nil {
-		fl.fe.Close()
+		return fl.fe.Close()
 	}
 }
 

logging/levels.go

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const (
 	LevelFatal
 )
 
+// DefaultLevel is the default logging level when none is provided.
 const DefaultLevel = LevelInfo
 
 // Cheap integer to fixed-width decimal ASCII.  Give a negative width

logging/log.go

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ func (lw *LogWriter) Fatal(actor, event string, attrs map[string]string) {
 	os.Exit(1)
 }
 
-// Fatal emits a message indicating that the system is in an unsuable
+// FatalCode emits a message indicating that the system is in an unsuable
 // state, and cannot continue to run. The program will exit with the
 // exit code speicfied in the exitcode argument.
 //
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ func (lw *LogWriter) FatalCode(exitcode int, actor, event string, attrs map[stri
 	os.Exit(exitcode)
 }
 
-// Fatal emits a message indicating that the system is in an unsuable
+// FatalNoDie emits a message indicating that the system is in an unsuable
 // state, and cannot continue to run. The program will not exit; it is
 // assumed that the caller has some final clean up to perform.
 //

tee/tee.go

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ func (t *Tee) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
 	return n, nil
 }
 
+// Close calls Close on the underlying file.
 func (t *Tee) Close() error {
 	return t.f.Close()
 }