From owner-cvs-all Wed May 31 10:28:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (peter1.yahoo.com [208.48.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A1037BBF0; Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFFC1CE1; Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/quot quot.c In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans of "Thu, 01 Jun 2000 03:23:10 +1000." Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:17 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000531172817.2AFFC1CE1@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: [..] > > How do you feel about ANSI string concatenation, eg: > > > > open(PATH_DEV "rmt0", ... > > This would break K&R support :-), and wouldn't work in most contexts > (the basename is normally from argv[]; for dump(8) it may be from the > environment). How did I just *know* you were going to say that. You should have said "break K&R support even more" - it's already pretty badly broken. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message