From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 31 22:37:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00560 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00554 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA20572; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma020567; Sun, 31 Jan 99 22:35:52 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA25806; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:35:52 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199902010635.WAA25806@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: a nit, however.... In-Reply-To: from Brian Feldman at "Jan 31, 99 07:13:10 pm" To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Feldman) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:35:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: mo@servo.ccr.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Feldman writes: > > any reason why the kernel "config" program shouldn't > > be changed to dramatically reduce the requirement for > > the silling quoting of option values??? if an option > > needs embedded whitespace, but other than that, > > is there any reason other than historical for > > the silliness about nubmers, etc?? > > Actually, as I understand it config(8) was never meant to allow the LACK > of quotation marks. It's simply we've grown accustomed to not using them, > I suppose, that we don't. I, for one, have every option quoted in my kernel > configuration file. The right thing would be to not allow lack of quotes > at all, I believe, but that would be disastrous now with current config > files, and release scripts. Why would that be the "right thing"? Seems to me that not requiring quotes would be more "right" with today's usage. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message