On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm not 100% satisfied with this patch now. Looking back it fails >>> the following case: >>> >>> -P Do not follow symbolic links in the file hierarchy, instead >>> con- >>> sider the symbolic link itself in any comparisons. This is the >>> default. >> >> -P should have the same semantics and description in all utilities. The >> description should not have grammar errors like the above (comma splice). >> ... >> I now see that the grammar error is from the original version of mtree(1), >> and is probably one of the things you don't like. mtree also has -L, but >> not -R or -P or -h. It is not clear how any utility that traverses trees >> can work without a full complement of -[HLPR] or how any utility that >> ... > > Looking at the actual patch, I now see that it is about a completely > different problem. You would only need to understand the amount of > brokenness of -P to see if you need to use lstat(). I think -P is so > broken that mtree on symlinks doesn't work at all and not using lstat() > would be safest.
Hmmm... so I take it that this is actually the first step in many to fixing this underlying problem? I suppose I should be opening bugs for all of the itemized issues that you see in mtree(8) so someone can submit patches to fix the utility? > The patch has some style bugs. Please expound on this -- I want to improve my style (without having to rewrite the entire program of course) -- so that it conforms more to the projects overall style rules; of course there are some cases where I can't readily do that (like pkg_install -- ugh), but I'll do my best to make sure that the rules are withheld. Thanks :), -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
