From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Nov 30 11:23:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02756 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 11:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02749 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 11:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA23959; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:22:39 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03399; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:22:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id TAA03007; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:51:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611301851.TAA03007@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pending/2112 To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:51:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611301750.JAA27648@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 30, 96 09:50:02 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > >Hmm, so now, do you think the suggested patch is OK? ;-) > > I can't see any reason not to have it. RFC783 is relatively > silent on the subject, but "replacing the file in place" is > a much more intuitive operation than "replacing the first > N bytes of the file and leaving the rest there". Ok, will commit it ``RSN''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)