cvs commit: src/usr.bin/awk main.c.diff

[Andrey Chernov]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:32:42PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:29:56AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:06:52AM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > I'm pretty sure it will be accepted by Brian since another option
> > > already allowed its argument to be specified without a preceding
> > > space, 
> > 
> > I don't think so. My experience shows that he does not accept fixes 
> > easily, f.e. our locale POSIX and GNU awk compatible fixes many people 
> > send to him several times already. I can't tell for sure about this change 
> > exactly, but...
> > 
> Let's see...  I sent the patches already to Brian.

It is what we exactly can do, dealing with 3rd party maintainers.
What happens next is beyond our control...
But we _must_ keep our local fixes in anyway even they are not accepted.

BTW, inspecting the nature of arguments fix I think now it have high 
probability to be accepted. The questions is other our fixes. F.e. do 
you try to send him locale fixes? I do it several times and got no 
answer at all.

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