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Date:      Sun, 03 Mar 2019 13:42:06 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r344701 - head/sbin/camcontrol
Message-ID:  <201903032142.x23Lg6Xf087501@slippy.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> of "Sun, 03 Mar 2019 13:28:41 -0700." <06d7e6402ad6f673b15873a9d99c9382f21e64b9.camel@freebsd.org>

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In message <06d7e6402ad6f673b15873a9d99c9382f21e64b9.camel@freebsd.org>
, Ian Le
pore writes:
> On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 12:20 -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
> > > On Mar 3, 2019, at 11:12, Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not really much more to say that isn't explained by that and the
> > > code.
> > > 
> > > Sure I could have used a different sentence structure for the body
> > > but it wouldn't add anything IMO, thoughts?
> > 
> >     Why the previous sector size was wrong isn’t clear from the
> > commit message. Why switch from a sizeof to 0?
> > Cheers!
> > -Enji
> > 
>
> The commit message said it was "incorrect / unused". While a bit terse,
> it does communicate that the old value was incorrect (by being there at
> all) because the value is unused (so zero more clearly expresses that).
>
> It's not completely a joke that most English-speaking software
> engineers have English as a second language. :)

This is one of those profound quotes that should be in fortune(1).


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.





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