On 10/16/09, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009 19:02:25 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Keep from blowing up when people have duplicate aliases in their files. >> The grep ends up including new lines and with certain formed comments, >> hits an infinite loop. >> >> For example, the following inputs illustrates the problem: >> ---------------------------------------------- >> alias char-major-195 NVdriver >> alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 >> alias char-major-195 nvidia >> alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 >> ---------------------------------------------- >> alias a b >> alias b a >> ---------------------------------------------- > > no feedback on this change ? > -mike I don't understand the changelog - I don't see the loop in the first example, and I don't understand why it also depends on having "certain formed comments". That said, I've no objection to applying it as-is. Everyone else has long forgotten about this script, so I don't expect to understand it, and I'm sure any hypothetical bug reports would be (re)directed to the person who last touched it :). Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
