Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:06:01 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: opentrax@email.com Cc: sam@inf.enst.fr, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24271: dumpon should check its argument more Message-ID: <20010115120601.B61857@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200101151321.FAA03133@spammie.svbug.com>; from opentrax@email.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:21:23AM -0800 References: <2001-01-15-12-14-48%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr> <200101151321.FAA03133@spammie.svbug.com>
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:21:23AM -0800, opentrax@email.com wrote:
> > | This patch introduces at least eleven new style bugs.
> >
> > I'm not a commiter, and doesn't even know what you are talking about
> > (new style?). Do you have a pointer onto this "new style"?
> >
> I'm not answering for Garrett, but I took his meaning to be
> that the command line arguments introduced would create
> "new style bugs" there. That is to say, the order, use
> and interdependencies can be measured with introducing
> new command line arguments. I believe there is a formula
> for determining this, although I'm not familiar with it.
>
> So his number should be fairly accurate about that.
> BTW, I'm not a committer either.
I won't speak for Garrett either, but I'll at least come close to
his original intent:
Code in the project is supposed to conform to a specific style,
which is defined in 'man 9 style'. The patch violated the rules
in that manpage and should be cleaned up before committing (if
its even worth committing).
I've been a native English speaker all my life and consider myself
fairly decent with the language. I, however, cannot figure out
what the hell...
"use and interdepedencies can be measured with introducing new
command line arguments"
... is even supposed to mean. I'd suggest that whoever is running
the jmjr.pl script on our mailing lists turn down the "random words
from the jargon file" setting a notch or two.
--
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