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Subject: Re: mdconfig(8) argument parsing.
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On 1/25/12 11:44 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> Patch below changes the way mdconfig(8) parses its arguments:
> it removes the ordering requirement and makes error messages
> more descriptive; it also makes the code more readable by
> getting rid of the 'cmdline' variable.
> 
> Now, the mdconfig(8) syntax is somewhat weird, and I'm not sure
> I tested all the ways people use it.  Thus, testing is welcome.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/mdconfig-parsing.diff
> 

Against what version is this patched ?

We're running 8.2-RELEASE here at work, I've got private boxes with
8.2-STABLE, and 2 test ones with 9.0-RELEASE.