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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        axl@iafrica.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf comment about tabs
Message-ID:  <199810150511.WAA11878@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810142147.PAA07468@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 14, 98 03:47:21 pm"

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Nate Williams writes:
> > It's a pity that, after all the discussion about syslog's
> > differentiation between tabs and spaces, nothing was actually done about
> > it. This is especially sad given that 3.0-RELEASE is about to be
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> > snapped.
>   ^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > When someone with commit privs has some time (does this sound like
> > millenium hype? ;) it'd be great to see PR8162 making it into the
> > repository.
> 
> Given that we're about to 'release' FreeBSD, a change that affects a
> critical part of the system that is not a bugfix should never be
> committed since it might break something.
> 
> It is being ignored *because* it's too late to commit a fix that isn't
> necessary and has potentially 'huge' destablizing possibilities.

PR8162 (which is just a two line patch to add a comment to the default
/etc/syslog.conf) has already been committed, according to the
audit trail.

-Archie

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