Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:56:47 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said: > Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system > > Return-Path: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > Delivery-Date: Sat Apr 21 20:28:52 2001 > Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org> > Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com > Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, > "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, > CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, > kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > References: <20010421114942.A26415@thyrsus.com> <200104212023.f3LKN7P188973@sat > ***urn.cs.uml.edu> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > In-Reply-To: <200104212023.f3LKN7P188973@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from acahalan@cs.u > ***ml.edu on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:23:06PM -0400 > Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs > X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy > Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > Precedence: bulk > X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>:
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> > It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed > > changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.
> The right way to handle that is to have a report generator that does the > grep for you, or if you like simply returns the concatenation of all the > map blocks so you can grep that.
Please, _no_ specialized-just-for-linux-kernel-hacking tools! Unix is great because it has _no_ such for-one-task-only tools, which you have to learn how to use each time a reason for using them comes around. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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