From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Jun 22 3:23:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBF037B407; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5MANNR14264; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5MANNv00591; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:23:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Heffner Cc: Mike Barcroft , freebsd-audit@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois(1) patch Message-ID: <20010622032318.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mheffner@novacoxmail.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0400, Mike Heffner wrote: > On 31-May-2001 Mike Barcroft wrote: > | > | I originally made the ANSI C change to silence a warning, but is there any > | reason not to bring the code up to ANSI C spec? Is it likely that anyone > | will need to compile whois with a K&R compiler? > > It's not likely, but I'm not sure on what the consensus is on ANSI-fication. > Technically, style(9) says it shouldn't be done in this case, but people > (myself included) have been removing K&R support in small patches like this > one. And I strongly wish you guys would *STOP* doing that. > I think there was also talk of doing a full sweep to remove __P. Yes. Lets plan for a sweep in 6mo. or so and make the conversion. Many of us don't want the CSRG derived sources in various forms -- they should be kept consistent. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message