From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jan 15 10: 6:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E21C37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:06:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id B77062B515; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:06:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:06:01 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola 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> References: <2001-01-15-12-14-48+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> <200101151321.FAA03133@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101151321.FAA03133@spammie.svbug.com>; from opentrax@email.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:21:23AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-FEARSOME-20001103 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message