Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:11:42 +0100 (CET) From: Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/47953: [patch] Teach /usr/bin/msgs difference between singular and plural Message-ID: <200302051311.h15DBgdJ074878@menelaos.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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>Number: 47953
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [patch] Teach /usr/bin/msgs difference between singular and plural
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 05 05:20:05 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Volker Stolz
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Lehrstuhl für Informatik II
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD menelaos.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 23 16:45:31 CET 2003 root@menelaos.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/MENELAOS i386
>Description:
/usr/bin/msgs was asking me if I'd like to see "1 lines". No, I won't.
Simple fix to printf to remove this little bit of friction between OS
and user.
>How-To-Repeat:
- Setup msgs mechanism (yes, I actually use this!)
- mail msgs
Subject: Test
Foo
.
- /usr/bin/msgs -> "(1 lines)"
>Fix:
Straight forward:
--- msgs/msgs.c.orig Fri Jan 31 17:28:09 2003
+++ msgs/msgs.c Wed Feb 5 13:58:40 2003
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@
lct = linecnt(newmsg);
if (lct)
- printf("(%d%slines) ", lct, seensubj? " " : " more ");
+ printf("(%d%sline%s) ", lct, seensubj? " " : " more ", (lct==1)? "" : "s");
if (hdrs) {
printf("\n-----\n");
>Release-Note:
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