On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:12:43 -0500 Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> This code has two purposes: if you have a & in the GECOS field, it > substitutes in your login name in to your real name field. > Personally I always found this feature a bit dubious, and from my > experience not much supports that. I propose we just junk this > support. since none of my other tools support '&' expansion in the gecos field i can't use it even if nmh did keep doing it. so, i am +1 for removal. > The other use of BSD42 seems to be in msh.c; basically, if we get > interrupted in a signal, longjmp() out of the signal handler back > to the main command loop. I guess this code was before signals > interrupted system calls? Anyway, I am thinking that this can be > junked as well. Any objections? no objection from me on that. if a system lacks posix signals it will likely also lack an ansi c compiler. > (Okay, for purists; BSD42 also controls the use of the MIME content > cache, for reasons I do not pretend to understand). maybe just remove the #ifdef :-) ? -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
