On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:20:29PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> Hi OpenBSD developers!
>
> I was logging in to a OpenBSD vm at work. It looked like this:
>
> peter@flappie ~ $ ssh [email protected]
> [email protected]'s password:
> Last login: Wed Nov 21 11:06:01 2012
> OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #130: Wed Mar 17 20:48:50 MDT 2010
>
> Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system.
>
> Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system.
> Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest
> version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that
> enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a
> known fix for it exists, include that as well.
>
> #
>
> Nothing special. Unless you look very closely. There are two spaces
> between "code." and "With". That's a typo. A typo in software is a bug
> ;)
>
> Now the best part: this bug is almost as old as myself. According to
> CVS, the motd hasn't changed since 1998. I was born in 1994. So I just
> found a 14-year old typo in OpenBSD.
>
> Have fun fixing this tiny little old bug ;)
>
> Yours,
> Peter Hazenberg
This is not a bug. It's very common style to use a double space after a
full stop.
-Otto
