cvs commit: src/usr.bin/patch - Imported sources

[Tim Robbins]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:45:55PM +0000, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > gad         2004-08-01 20:45:55 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   src/usr.bin/patch - Imported sources
> >   Update of /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/patch
> >   In directory repoman.freebsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv87568
> >   
> >   Log Message:
> >   Import of a BSD-licensed version of `patch', which will  eventually
> >   replace the version we currently have in src/gnu/usr.bin/patch/.
> >   Among other things, this version includes a --posix option for strict
> >   POSIX conformance.
> >   
> >   This version is the current source from OpenBSD as of today.  It is
> >   their 3.5-release, plus a few updates to patch.c and pch.c that they
> >   made about three weeks ago.
> 
> May I ask why you preferred OpenBSD's version over NetBSD's?  It was
> shown in the past that OpenBSD's way of doing thing is a bit rough on
> the edges sometimes (humanize_number(3) vs. fmt_scaled(3) and
> scan_scaled(3), ftw(3) and nftw(3), etc).

Actually, OpenBSD's ftw()/nftw() implementation is better than the one
we recently imported, in terms of both style and functionality; I wish we'd
gone with it instead. What we have in -CURRENT at the moment is incredibly
buggy for such a simple function. The droll, inane comments ("Because
errno is our friend") and style violations only make things worse.


Tim