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bug#10317: PING - bug#10317: patch to su: -l and -p should not be used t
From: |
Rocky Bernstein |
Subject: |
bug#10317: PING - bug#10317: patch to su: -l and -p should not be used together |
Date: |
Fri, 4 May 2012 10:20:35 -0400 |
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> > Please don't interpret my review delays or my misreading your
> > patch as anything deliberately unfriendly.
> >
> > I didn't say deliberately unfriendly. I said there was an unfriendly
> environment
> > . No doubt, it is unintentional. But for me, for this, it is there. More
> below.
> >
> > I've been trying to keep
> > this list as open/accommodating as possible for nearly two decades.
> > I agree that the long delay is off-putting and apologized for that,
> twice.
> >
> > Understood and accepted. But really there is not much to show that this
> has
> > moved forward in the 5 months. Well, okay, for 5 months of time, you
> have now at
> > least tried the patch.
> >
> > So perhaps for the delays, you or someone reading could make the
> stylistic
> > changes that would take, what, maybe a few minutes? I promise in the
> future with
> > respect to coreutils I will follow coreutils conventions more carefully.
> But is
> > this about me getting following coreutils conventions or is this about
> getting a
> > "su" problem solved? Right now, if feels like the former, hence
> "unfriendly
> > environment".
> >
> > Also if you had taken the few minutes to make the stylistic changes, you
> would
> > have known that things would be properly and it would show that this you
> have
> > some interest in seeing things improved. Deeds sometimes speak volumes
> more than
> > apologies.
>
> Um... You seem to have misread.
> I did indeed make all of the stylistic adjustments I listed.
> I even added a commit log for you and included the output of
> "git format-patch" (the "change-set" I mentioned) including
> your patch *with those stylistic changes*, so that you could
> use that as a basis for any additional changes.
>
Ok - my bad. Thanks.
>
> > > I suggest, but leave up to you, whether
> > > to just document the behavior as it is leaving the code exactly as
> it is.
> > >
> > > starting from the change-set below, which includes the
> following
> > changes:
> > >
> > > - remove some space-before-TAB in tests/Makefile.am
> > > - remove space-before-semicolon in su.c
> > > - split two longer-than-80-col lines
> > > - remove both \n and trailing "." from two new diagnostics
> > > - adjust NEWS
>
bug#10317: PING - bug#10317: patch to su: -l and -p should not be used together, Jim Meyering, 2012/05/04