From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 15 10: 3:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B330337B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAFC43F93 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2FI2qA7007626; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:02:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:02:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030315.110242.96686701.imp@bsdimp.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style of sysctl description strings From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030314194119.GA5226@gothmog.gr> References: <20030314194119.GA5226@gothmog.gr> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030314194119.GA5226@gothmog.gr> Giorgos Keramidas writes: : Is there a reason for wrapping with '\n'? If yes, what would that be? : I'm only asking because it would make my life simpler if the sysctl : descriptions didn't have embedded newlines, and this is a good : opportunity to learn something too :-) Habit. There's a bunch of these with OLDCARD. They all should be < 80 characters, however. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message