2012/11/21 Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]>:
> 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


http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html

Some typo's are very common, that doesn't make them correct.

Have a nice day,
Peter Hazenberg

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