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
