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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:04:20 +1000
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/procfs procfs_status.c
Message-ID:  <20010929110420.B5780@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010927133431.A11474@coffee.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:34:31PM -0400
References:  <200109250442.f8P4gfA47729@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010927145242.B3656@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010927133431.A11474@coffee.q9media.com>

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On Thursday, 27 September 2001 at 13:34:31 -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> On Monday, 24 September 2001 at 21:42:41 -0700, Mike Barcroft wrote:
>>> mike        2001/09/24 21:42:41 PDT
>>>
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/fs/procfs        procfs_status.c
>>>   Log:
>>>   A process name may contain whitespace and unprintable characters,
>>>   so convert those characters to octal notation.
>>
>> Why octal?
>
> I was following the precedence set by 'ls -B'.  Is there a more
> long-standing antecedence that I'm not aware of?

Possibly.  But I was just curious; I wasn't asking for a change.

Greg
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