Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:42:12 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: thib <thib@heimsnet.is> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now where should I post. :> Message-ID: <20040413084212.72cedaa9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040413012934.31ca2d8b.thib@heimsnet.is> References: <20040413012934.31ca2d8b.thib@heimsnet.is>
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[ 72 chars / line, please ] On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:29:34 +0000 thib <thib@heimsnet.is> wrote: > Good day/night list. > > I just made a patch for cat(1) wich simply aborts if you try to cat a > directory. Now that I have the patch file and everything I stumbled on > where I should post it and ask for it to be reviewd and perhaps > commited. I thougt of -hackers ( Unlikely but I have seen a few posts > there but since cat is a contributed software I don't know ) and then > I thougt of -ports but since this not a port of cat(1) so I don't > really think so. Then I thougt I should report this to the cat (gnu) > project it self but since I'm using the FreeBSD API for this I did not > think so. And then I thougt about obrien@ since this: > "# $FreeBSD: src/bin/cat/Makefile,v 1.7 2001/12/04 01:57:37 obrien Exp > $" is in the Makefile for cat(1) but I really don't want to bother him > if I'm wrong. > > Anyways I thank you for your time and any pointers whould be welcome. Yous should make a PR with you work. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=send-pr&sektion=1 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html But this has been discussed a about year ago (on current I think) and from what I remember it remained the way it is because "it's use job to use cat on non.directories" or something. Note that I'm writing from memory ;) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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