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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:35:22 -0600
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        nate@sneezy.sri.com, ache@astral.msk.su, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SUP errors
Message-ID:  <199504082135.PAA25993@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199504081933.MAA15861@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
References:  <199504081728.LAA23253@trout.sri.MT.net> <199504081933.MAA15861@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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> > > SUP Receiving file TODO-2.1/CVS/Repository
> > 
> > Fixed by the addition of 'omitany */CVS*'
> 
> Humm... wonder if we made a mistake on that regex, should it not
> be omitany */CVS/*???  I'll do some local testing and see if that
> gets the same effect.  I done like the idea that CVS* could match
> CVSfiles or CVSfoobar, though the likely hood of names like that
> ever coming up is near zero.

I'll let you do your research.  I just followed what was done before.

> And grepping the sup config files on freefall makes me wonder about
> the wasted CPU time for some of the others, that should never get
> hit anyway:
> 
> omitany *~
> omitany *.o
> omitany */tags
> 
> Nobody is suppose to muck around in the /usr/src or /usr/ports area,
> so files by these names should never ever be created.

It's better to be safe than sorry, and I suspect the extra overhead of
these is so neglibible that it's not worth worrying about in terms of
CPU hit.


Nate




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