Re: patching dd

[Olivier Delhomme]

Le Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:27:45 +0100, Jim Meyering disait :

 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> Have you read the GNU Coding Standards document?

No, not yet, but this mistake will soon be patched :)

> Run `info standards' on a Linux system.  There are
> some minor syntactic problems below.  Most would be eliminated
> if you used GNU indent output as a model.  If you use emacs,
> using cc-mode helps for indentation.

A strange thing is that my `info' version does not understand any
standards ... anyway I found this documentation on the gnu web 
site here :

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html

Now I 'only' have to learn a bit more ... I would like to thank
you for the comments you made, showing me where I was wrong.
I promise to make a special effort to code and review next 
patchs. 

By the Way, I sent a patch for `du', I saw there is some mistakes 
in it that you already told me ... and I was wondering which option
sould be used to display null terminated file names in `du' :

Dennis Smit proposed to add options to du and wc in order to read
file names from a file in a zero separated way. The option proposed
was -0 and --null but if the `du' program has to display results in
the same way, which option should be used (to avoid confusing people) ?

> This change is large enough that you'll have to send
> a copyright assignment to the FSF.  Here are the instructions:

I didn't knew this ... well the first step is done.


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