From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 15:23:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16043 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16030 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA20045; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:22:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net cc: Brett Glass , "N. N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 brooks@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: > > Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. Should this be > > submitted as a bug? > > This isn't a bug any more then any other UN*X stupidity you could care to > name including other cases nearly identical to this one like tabs not > being the same as spaces in sendmail.cf and Makefiles. One thing you can When spaces are a legal value within a field, they can hardly be used as field 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