From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 25 3: 9:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C58437B449; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.241]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0CD1D140; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:09:13 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <39A645C9.3A68B0CD@originative.co.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:09:13 +0100 From: Paul Richards Organization: Originative Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review/comments - new option for uname(1) References: <20000809005929.K250@parish> <20000809143344.L29987@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000810003858.D251@parish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:33:44PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:59:29AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Is there any reason why this is unacceptable and could not be committed? > > > > Because it can be done with an awk/sed script? > > > > I'll forget about it then. I only did it because I was fed up with > manually editing the output so it was tidier in e-mails and PRs. Like > I said, it's not important. I think this might be one of those rare cases where adding another option is more efficient than using tools. Running awk/sed to correct the formatting is overkill when a few printfs in the code would do it much more efficiently. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message