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Minor typo in Slackware -current /etc/rc.d/rc.6
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It's been there for some time : Code:
$grep systohc /etc/rc.d/rc.6--Edit : not visible on LQ without editing the post, check live. --Edit2 : added code tags. |
Ever heard of quote tags? They are quite useful here on LQ.
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It's not a bug as in this context you can write more than one space without changing the interpretation of the command by the shell, in other words the results of parsing it. If you have a reason to think otherwise, please provide a pointer to a relevant specification to sustain your claim.
But if that really hurts your eyes, feel free to remove the additional space in your system. |
The shell doesn't care how much white-space is between a command and/or command arguments. 'needs to be removed' is probably over stating it a little. :)
edit: beaten to it. :) |
Geez...a guy tries to help clean things up a bit, is told his help is irrelevant (and not even close to anything he commented about! It is about a *typo*, not what it could or couldn't do to a running system!) and does anyone expect him to come back if he does find something that could be damaging to a Slackware installed system? If I were a newbie Slackware user, or someone interested in possibly trying it out and had questions and saw how someone is treated by the elitists in here, hell...I'd probably go to another distro faster than a synapse could happen and would even consider an systemd abortion using distro over this one.
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All I did was point out that it's a cosmetic issue only and has no impact. There was no nastiness in what I posted, nor do I accept that I was in any way elitist.
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I just hope that someone who has posted 2273 times in more that twelve years is no more a newbie.
Yes he should have known the purpose of code tags and used them. And people have tried to help that person a lot. Quote:
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At last! The change to save that vital byte on the install size.
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I never talked about a bug, please read carefully the first post.
I noticed it because I patch a system that must not write to hwclock. So when I used sed on /etc/rc.d/rc.6 I noticed the typo. Anyway I think this extra space should be removed on a Slackware. |
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Mostly it's a cosmetic fix only. The whitespace argument is fickle over a single blank space in a text file. While it is nice to try and reduce whitespace to save as many bits of freespace and reduce data footprint as much as possible, by today's standards, you can actually get away with some wasted whitespace in documents when making tables for documentation and simply making a command structure look nice and evened out.
That being said, guys, please keep the comments humane and helpful. No need to act like snobby elitists. This isn't Debian... |
IMHO a typo is always worth fixing.
@Linux.tar.gz - You might want to send a simple patch to PV, then he would decide. Code:
diff -r a/etc/rc.d/rc.6 b/etc/rc.d/rc.6 |
I fail to see how requesting the rationale for a change of which implementation would waste need attention and time from the Slackware team better spent on something more useful is acting like a snobby elitist.
PS And if someone cares about typos, there are many more than just that one. So it would be more efficient and helpful to chase them systematically in all Slackware scripts and provide a single unified diff for all of them, or better one per source package. PPS I have been and still am occasionally in contact with Debian contributors and didn't observe anything in their behavior that I would qualify as snobby elitism either. Maybe I am lucky? |
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What I find funny is that it takes less time to remove that extra space out of that file than it is to read through this whole thread. :)
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