From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 1:34:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688D137B406 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (office.sbnd.net [217.75.140.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55F5443EBE for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 2328 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Dec 2002 09:33:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:33:45 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: J R Matthews Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/bin/finger problems... Message-ID: <20021203093344.GI383@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: J R Matthews , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021202122335.GA73986@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021203141611.G958-100000@inferno.darktide.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021203141611.G958-100000@inferno.darktide.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:18:09PM +1100, J R Matthews wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:01:22PM +1100, J R Matthews wrote: > > > > > I can submit a patch to fix this if you want or not.. I honestly dont= give > > > a damn to be honest ;) > > > > Submitting a PR containing a patch is the best way to get this fixed. > > Thanks! >=20 > Well the guy who emailed me who dealt with the 'send-pr' which I submitted > agreed that it was kinda stupid submitting a patch with it. >=20 > If you cant figure out the one-liner then there's something seriously > wrong ;) I believe that Kris meant that submitting a PR would be the best way to handle any problems you have with FreeBSD, besides usage questions which belong on the various mailing lists. In this case, for a genuine problem, you did the right thing by submitting a PR - this way the fix progress can be tracked using the GNATS PR database. A patch was not needed for this particular case, indeed, but in general, reports for not-so-trivial problems are much more likely to be handled quickly if they contain patches :) Of course, PR's without patches are not taken any less seriously, it's just that they may be delayed a bit, until somebody figures out exactly what the problem is and how to fix it. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97Hp47Ri2jRYZRVMRAkWwAJ49NEzPNgkqLrzfoArlCwUbXiNXDQCeP5Dj wyvTN+8tZtymtTNT9yNGdbQ= =pdiu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message