Re: style: clean up mentions of old-style C

2023-04-17 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2023-04-17 kl. 12:51, skrev Joerg Sonnenberger: Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 01:23:48AM + schrieb David Holland: Otherwise sooner or later you'll get bitten by a main() that expects the env argument. I don't think I've *ever* seen that used. Neither have I. I see no problem in disallowing t

Re: tcsh as csh default

2022-10-21 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2022-10-21 kl. 11:07, skrev Martin Husemann: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:51:14AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:39:45AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: [csh] Or just remove it... It would be a bad joke for anyone that has set it as root shell. Oh, I did not mean to

Re: Proposal: remove usr.bin/mkstr

2022-04-10 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2022-04-10 kl. 22:03, skrev Joerg Sonnenberger: Am Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:30:19PM +0700 schrieb Robert Elz: Date:Sat, 9 Apr 2022 21:33:36 +0200 From:Joerg Sonnenberger Message-ID: | wtf is this still being installed on most NetBSD systems? Can you demo

Re: Proposal: remove usr.bin/mkstr

2022-04-09 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2022-04-09 kl. 01:23, skrev Roland Illig: Hi, Since 1993, the manual page of mkstr(1) has been saying that this tool should not be used.  29 years later, I'd like to remove this tool from NetBSD since there is no practical use case for it. It doesn't say that it should not be used, it says t

Re: Summary of man-page formatting

2021-03-14 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2021-03-13 kl. 16:06, skrev Valery Ushakov: On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:39:08 +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2021-03-13 kl. 10:03, skrev Valery Ushakov: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46 +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: Well, there is lout to consider. [...] I've never used i

Re: Summary of man-page formatting

2021-03-13 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2021-03-13 kl. 10:03, skrev Valery Ushakov: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46 +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: Well, there is lout to consider. [...] I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk' script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has experience with

Re: Proposal to drop MKCATPAGES

2020-10-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2020-10-25 kl. 17:29, skrev Joerg Sonnenberger: On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:41:16AM -0400, Mouse wrote: Of course groff's even slower, but mandoc is faster -- than groff, at least, dunno about heritage nroff. Is there a noticeable delay with mandoc even on our slowest supported hardware? It m

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2019-02-15 kl. 22:31, skrev Christian Groessler: On 2/15/19 10:20 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2019-02-15 kl. 22:17, skrev Christian Groessler: On 2/15/19 8:15 PM, m...@netbsd.org wrote: For the record I support the change. I don't think it's very hard not to turn on color

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2019-02-15 kl. 22:17, skrev Christian Groessler: On 2/15/19 8:15 PM, m...@netbsd.org wrote: For the record I support the change. I don't think it's very hard not to turn on colors. You can turn them off even in linux. "You can turn them off even in linux." How do you do it? rm /etc/prof

Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

2018-12-15 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2018-12-15 kl. 22:11, skrev Marc Balmer: Whatever. Please keep telnet and telnetd in base. They have their valid use cases. Yes please.  I have used both kerberized telnet and plain telnet last 12 months frequently. I don't think it's up to us try to tell people that "this SW may be inse

Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

2017-12-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 14:45, skrev Christos Zoulas: In article , Anders Magnusson wrote: IIRC it was not a problem to run Emacs, it was a problem to compile it. So if the user want to compile an old Emacs,  COMPAT_80 or so must be added to the kernel. And let's not forget all the old bin

Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

2017-12-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 14:15, skrev Valery Ushakov: Anders Magnusson wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 8bit, charset: utf-8, 35 lines --] Den 2017-12-19 kl. 13:12, skrev Sevan Janiyan: Just as a heads up, I believe the FreeBSD folks went through this with their ARMv8 support and looking up the

Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

2017-12-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 13:12, skrev Sevan Janiyan: Hello, On 12/19/17 11:51, Anders Magnusson wrote: Sounds good :-) Just a note here: about 15-20 years ago I did a test by removing the brk(2) syscall and replacing its use in malloc() by mmap(), and also add a libc wrapper for brk() that mmap&#x

Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

2017-12-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 13:11, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: On 19.12.2017 12:51, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2017-12-19 kl. 10:53, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: I propose to remove the sbrk(2) syscall "change data segment size". It has never been implemented by the NetBSD kernel since the incept

Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

2017-12-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 10:53, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: I propose to remove the sbrk(2) syscall "change data segment size". It has never been implemented by the NetBSD kernel since the inception of the project and it is emulated in libc with SYS_brk (break, obreak). This interface is a remnant from t