Like most people, I have my pet peeves. I consider that documentation
is very important to code quality.
I ran into a school-book example a week ago, so I decided to share what I
mean.
There was this problem with dpb where some packages in a MULTI_PACKAGES show
up as Errors when they don't build
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> Without the "-a" option strings(1) doesn't scan the file entirely [0].
I see, I never realized strings(1) handled executables specially... I
always assumed the -a behavior was the default anyway. My bad.
> I would say to not create empty
On 2011/04/06 23:52, Alexandr Shadchin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Merge viapm and viaenv
>
> Pluse:
> - Add support SMBus for VT82C596, VT82C596B, VT82C686A, VT8231
> - Add support ACPI timer for all VIA South Bridges
>
> Tested on:
> - VT82C596B (Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+)
> - VT82C686A (Neoware CA2)
> - VT8231
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:21:40PM -0400, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
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> On 4/9/2011 1:04 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > When you print and off_t, for portability you should use:
> >
> > "%lld", (long long)offt
> >
> >
> >
I'm a bit confused b
On 2011/04/10 10:08, Ian Darwin wrote:
> > > while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better
> > > way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made
> > > a patch for your consideration that does the following:
> > > b) it writes the gzipped file to
> > while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better
> > way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made
> > a patch for your consideration that does the following:
> > b) it writes the gzipped file to a /tmp location uncompressed so that the
> >
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 02:40:09PM +0200, David Vasek wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Marc Espie wrote:
>
> >This is completely stupid.
> >
> >What do you trust more ? your file system, or fsck ?
> >
> >oth have bugs ! I'm sure of it !
> >
> >so, if you run fsck, it's likely
> >you're going to run i
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Marc Espie wrote:
This is completely stupid.
What do you trust more ? your file system, or fsck ?
oth have bugs ! I'm sure of it !
so, if you run fsck, it's likely
you're going to run into fsck bugs eventually (and trying fsck on a mounted
partition was really, really stu
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 11:20:09AM -0400, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
> Hi folks.
> Current rdist will timeout with files >2GB, log as finished, but will
> not die.
> The bug (system/6586) was originally noted by IBM (AIX) in 2006:
> https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY85396
> I
No need to copy bugs@, tech@ and misc@. One is enough. I pick tech@.
There a few size_t vs ssize_t inconsistencies but this looks very
good for a start. I would suggest that as we are changing strtol and
atoi calls that we take the opportunity to replace them with strtonum
calls.
Ken
On Sat
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:27:41AM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > Now, consider this: the fs code is very heavily tested. People use it 24
> > hours
> > a day, 365 days a year.
>
> Except on leap years, of course. Those years see even more real-life
> testing happening!
Good point. Maybe we shoul
On 09/04/11(Sat) 09:19, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Martin Pieuchot
> wrote:
> > Diff below add elf support to (bsd) strings(1) and make it usable for
> > architectures with ELF_TOOLCHAIN=Yes.
>
> Wait, why? I don't get it. This seems out of scope for strings(1).
> Now, consider this: the fs code is very heavily tested. People use it 24 hours
> a day, 365 days a year.
Except on leap years, of course. Those years see even more real-life
testing happening!
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 01:45:36PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am replying in a single email.
>
> I do a fsck once in a while, not regular. In the last 6-8 months I
> might have done it about 5 times. And I did it multi-user the few
> times I did it, but plan on doing it single user i
On 2011/04/10 00:02, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better
> way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made
> a patch for your consideration that does the following:
>
> a) it checks if the file is a
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