Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: axl@iafrica.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf comment about tabs Message-ID: <199810150511.WAA11878@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810142147.PAA07468@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 14, 98 03:47:21 pm"
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Nate Williams writes: > > It's a pity that, after all the discussion about syslog's > > differentiation between tabs and spaces, nothing was actually done about > > it. This is especially sad given that 3.0-RELEASE is about to be > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > snapped. > ^^^^^^^^ > > > > When someone with commit privs has some time (does this sound like > > millenium hype? ;) it'd be great to see PR8162 making it into the > > repository. > > Given that we're about to 'release' FreeBSD, a change that affects a > critical part of the system that is not a bugfix should never be > committed since it might break something. > > It is being ignored *because* it's too late to commit a fix that isn't > necessary and has potentially 'huge' destablizing possibilities. PR8162 (which is just a two line patch to add a comment to the default /etc/syslog.conf) has already been committed, according to the audit trail. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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