Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981007083740.20457B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981006213234.04cd1600@mail.lariat.org>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > There's also the problem that some editors expand tabs to spaces. > > In the name of consistency, I'd like to see FreeBSD (and, for that matter, > ALL the BSDs) treat tabs and spaces the same, letting you quote spaces with > a backslash (or quotes surrounding a string) if you want to embed them. And that would make for even more readable sendmail.cf's (on the plus side it would certainly get everyone to move to m4 instead of editing sendmail.cf directly :) You have to examine the structure of the data in any config file before deciding which characters are legal separators. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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