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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:28:55 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        cperciva@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, trasz@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r210225 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <20100718.172855.190216127575145889.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C436535.7000000@freebsd.org>
References:  <201007182023.o6IKNBaU052215@svn.freebsd.org> <4C436535.7000000@freebsd.org>

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            Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On 07/18/10 13:23, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
: > Log:
: >   The "/*-" comment marker is supposed to denote copyrights.  Remove non-copyright
: >   occurences from sys/sys/ and sys/kern/.
: 
: The "/*-" comment marker indicates to utilities that comments should not be
: re-wrapped.  Some of the comments you've changed would distinctly suffer if
: they were re-wrapped, e.g.,
: 
: > -/*-
: > +/*
: >   * Change a process's real uid.
: >   * Side effects: newcred->cr_ruid will be updated, newcred->cr_ruidinfo
: >   *               will be updated, and the old and new cr_ruidinfo proc
: 
: If you don't want to have "/*-" for these, please change them instead to
: "/**", since that is an alternative "box comment" marker.

Agreed.  I specifically didn't *remove* any of the prior /*- comments
when I used that to denote the license...

Warner



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