Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:30:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rwall rwall.c Message-ID: <20020307142738.U3443-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307120711.A62212@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:28:24PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > This is by *NO* means more readable than the old code! > > > > I guess this comes down to an opinion, right? :-) > > There seems to be more NO's than agreements with you in this case. BUT > that does not matter. We've operated under the "don't change things w/o > a good reason" to (1) settle cases of opinion like this. And (2) because > changing things too much throws away over a decade of tested proven code. > This is something that should not be taken lightly. We hold our age up > all the time as one of our advantages over Linux. However these > WARNS/lint runs are making our code as volatile as the GNU stuff we snub. I believe I've asked this before, but I haven't heard a good answer: What benefit do the WARNS changes have? I'd understand the need for "strcpy -> strlcpy changes" or "snprintf changes", but I don't see what good the WARNS changes are having. Is this documented somewhere? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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