svn commit: r313107 - head/libexec/getty

[Ngie Cooper]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: danfe (ports committer)
> Date: Thu Feb  2 20:30:50 2017
> New Revision: 313107
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313107
>
> Log:
>   Try to fix the old "he capability is stupid" bug in gettytab(5)/getty(8)
>
>   There is one capability explicitly documented in gettytab(5) as stupid: he.
>   And it is indeed.  It was meant to facilitate system hostname modification,
>   but is hardly usable in practice because it allows very limited editing
>   (e.g., it depends on a particular hostname length, making it non-generic).
>
>   Replace it with simple implementation that treats ``he'' as POSIX extended
>   regular expression which is matched against the hostname.  If there are no
>   parenthesized subexpressions in the pattern, entire matched string is used
>   as the final hostname.  Otherwise, use the first matched subexpression.
>   If the pattern does not match, the original hostname is not modified.
>
>   Using regex(3) gives more freedom, does not complicate the code very much,
>   and makes a lot more sense, in turn making ``he'' less stupid and actually
>   useful (e.g., it is now possible to obtain node or domain names from the
>   original hostname string, without knowing it in advance).
>
>   Reviewed by:          jilles, manpages (wblock)
>   Approved by:          jilles (implied)
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9244

Cool! Does this deserve a "Relnotes: yes"?
Thanks!
-Ngie