From owner-cvs-all Fri May 7 16: 7:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0441501E; Fri, 7 May 1999 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA04348; Sat, 8 May 1999 08:37:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA50149; Sat, 8 May 1999 08:37:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:37:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, jb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c Message-ID: <19990508083700.D40359@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199905051841.EAA25231@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 07:28:24PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Friday, 7 May 1999 at 19:28:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bruce Evans writes: >> Can we have a semicolon for the path separator before people start using >> this? We are not MSDOS. > > I chose to use a semicolon for consistency with other similar > variables (e.g. module_path). Hmm. I thought that by now people would have realised that this was a typo on bde's part. bde sent a retraction out shortly later, but nobody seems to have read it. FWIW, the semicolon is what MS-DOS uses in order not to be too UNIX-like. Do I need to say we should be using colons here? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message