On Friday 16 October 2009 04:54:50 Alan Jenkins wrote: > On 10/16/09, Mike Frysinger 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 ? > > 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". hmm, the required comments were lost for some reason (maybe my fault?) > 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 :). why dont we just drop it already instead ? then there is no need for patching -mike
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