svn commit: r210225 - in head/sys: kern sys

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jul 18 23:34:49 UTC 2010


In message: <4C436535.7000000 at freebsd.org>
            Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On 07/18/10 13:23, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
: > Log:
: >   The "/*-" comment marker is supposed to denote copyrights.  Remove non-copyright
: >   occurences from sys/sys/ and sys/kern/.
: 
: The "/*-" comment marker indicates to utilities that comments should not be
: re-wrapped.  Some of the comments you've changed would distinctly suffer if
: they were re-wrapped, e.g.,
: 
: > -/*-
: > +/*
: >   * Change a process's real uid.
: >   * Side effects: newcred->cr_ruid will be updated, newcred->cr_ruidinfo
: >   *               will be updated, and the old and new cr_ruidinfo proc
: 
: If you don't want to have "/*-" for these, please change them instead to
: "/**", since that is an alternative "box comment" marker.

Agreed.  I specifically didn't *remove* any of the prior /*- comments
when I used that to denote the license...

Warner


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