From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 25 3:22:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A9D37B43F; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.106]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15802; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:21:59 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25160; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:22:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <39A648C6.CDFD7E0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:21:59 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Richards Cc: Mark Ovens , 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> <39A645C9.3A68B0CD@originative.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Richards wrote: > 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. Introduction of incompatible among others BSD/*nix variants changes in commonly used tools is evil from any point of view (IMO). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message