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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2017 06:50:49 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326554 - in head: . usr.bin/sponge usr.bin/sponge/tests usr.bin/tee
Message-ID:  <20171206065049.GA9434@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpX-EAPqaGLSjneCaku-yDPjgNj2ZfmZEawu-2_-gypWiA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <eadler@freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgmydTftejsX1d8ePHLTRuyS3f0PAEVL7nwgU-HbdKW%2BSw@mail.gmail.com> <201712052016.vB5KGc9T038423@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAG6CVpX-EAPqaGLSjneCaku-yDPjgNj2ZfmZEawu-2_-gypWiA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:06:40PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > In message [...], Eitan Adler writes:
> >> I'm not near my commit box right now so someone will have to revert
> >> it. What's funny is that I ran a complete 'make buildworld
> >> buildkernel' last night with this patch.
> >>
> >> Will respond to the rest of the thread later[.]
> >
> > No problem. r326575 addresses the issue.
> 
> Not fully -- it doesn't address that the code is functionally broken or
> that the change touched things it didn't need to.  I think a revert is
> still called for, when you can reach a machine with commit access.

While it was already reverted, all the input so far raises a question of
should it be readded even if/when fixed, since it apparently can be done
with existing shell tools, in a better way [1].

I'd like us to have a smaller, orthogonal base, with tools not repeating
themselves.

./danfe

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2017-December/107001.html



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