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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:23 +0100
From:      Antony T Curtis <antony@dp.abacus.co.uk>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mergemaster goes postal / MAKEDEV problems
Message-ID:  <3BAA0757.BF52C720@dp.abacus.co.uk>
References:  <E15jveS-0008Uc-00@rip.psg.com> <3BAA3B47.6000308@gmx.net>

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Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 
> Randy Bush wrote:
>  > happened on three separate systems cvsupped this afternoon
>  >
>  > [...]
>  >
>  > MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: à [...]
>  >
>  > [...]
> 
> Looks to me as if this is a really old bug surfacing here. Reference
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30637
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24443

Is the above PR a reasonable fix and is it safe for people to apply this
change to /usr/src/bin/sh/expand.c ?

If it is a good fix - any chance it would be committed?

-- 
ANTONY T CURTIS                     Tel: +44 (1635) 36222
Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd           Fax: +44 (1635) 38670
> All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own
> importance.

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