From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 6: 6:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF44937B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E84943E65; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjr@comcast.net) Received: from pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (pcp01207467pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [68.48.13.246]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3P000A4TQLG2@mtaout04.icomcast.net>; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:06:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from istari.comcast.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99D6FUj021735; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:06:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:06:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. In-reply-to: <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: tjr@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200210091306.g99D6FUj021735@pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Oct, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > >> What remains? All the games that dm(6) oversees. Things like >> adventure(6), trek(6), battlestar(6) and so on. These are good >> candidates for ports IMO. Folks may want to play them, but there is no >> point in wasting time and space on them _by_default_. In some cases, >> better upgrades are already available in ports (hack --> nethack). I >> would like to make a port out of these and remove them from the base >> distribution. > > I'd like to see these removed only if nobody is willing to maintain them. > Check lines 70-75 of src/games/larn/main.c for an example of how out of > touch they are with what's considered to be good practice (5 buffer overflows > in 6 lines of code). Merging in NetBSD and/or OpenBSD's changes would be a > good place to start. I think rogue, hack, primes, fortune and worm are worth > keeping, but I don't have the time or patience to maintain them. I've had a patch in the system (bin/12727) since 1999/07/20 that does just this for the NetBSD patches. I've tried a few times to get it committed. See the patch for details... -- Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@comcast.net) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message