Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:05:22 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: git: c2356a440db9 - main - asa: Rewrite to fix line termination issue. Message-ID: <20240110000522.BLC0pwdG@steffen%sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <637f3964-c65e-42cf-97a1-342e9447cd69@FreeBSD.org> References: <202401091627.409GRcI0028831@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20240109180554.UYZwm9Yl@steffen%sdaoden.eu> <637f3964-c65e-42cf-97a1-342e9447cd69@FreeBSD.org>
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Kyle Evans wrote in <637f3964-c65e-42cf-97a1-342e9447cd69@FreeBSD.org>: |On 1/9/24 12:05, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote in |> <202401091627.409GRcI0028831@gitrepo.freebsd.org>: |>|The branch main has been updated by des: |>| |>|URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3Dc2356a440db91c106867d45c= 94b\ |>|3d6d7bc0e50f0 |>| |>|commit c2356a440db91c106867d45c94b3d6d7bc0e50f0 |>|Author: Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> |>|AuthorDate: 2024-01-09 14:09:41 +0000 |>|Commit: Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> |>|CommitDate: 2024-01-09 16:27:15 +0000 |>| |>| asa: Rewrite to fix line termination issue. |>| |>| The standard is somewhat unclear, but on the balance, I believe \ |> ... |>| - Second, it unconditionally emits a newline at the end of the outp= ut |>| for non-empty input, even if the input did not end with a newline. |> ... |>=20 |> I want to point out that POSIX only knows about text files which |> end with a LF newline. Otherwise it is not a text file. (I think |> Stallman and emacs joke on this by allowing something else, iirc |> from before Y2K when i shortly used it, and, funnily, from some |> thread on another ML just last week or so, where it was claimed |> that this could have roots in emacse not rooting in UNIX.) | |It notably defines a text file as zero or more lines, and doesn't say=20 |anything about incomplete lines -- just that none of the lines contain=20 |NUL characters. One can conclude without further information that a=20 |trailing LF is not at all required in any circumstance, it's just an=20 |incomplete line. I must admit i have not looked at the actual changeset code, only the commit message. (I have waited until the "ghost hour" passed until i answered this.) --End of <637f3964-c65e-42cf-97a1-342e9447cd69@FreeBSD.org> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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