On 29 June 2015 at 03:35, Dave Rutherford <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> +It is recommended to use >> +.BR dd (1) >> +and /dev/zero to in these cases. Please read notes from > > > You're missing a verb after `to' there. Thanks for review Dave. I changed the wording to form: 'and /dev/zero in these cases.' Updated version is in my remote repo. https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/5e3899b316392a5ff65d917ae47adb2053529309 > Thanks for your comments on my patch to wall. I certainly > hope your suggestion for json was satire. I'm new to the list > so not sure I have the right perception there yet. Being able to parse[1] wall(1) message was earlier seen as something possibly useful. Json would do that fairly well, but I admit json is broken proposal - it feels wrong. Maybe wall(1) should copy the message to /dev/log and whom ever is interested to know when exactly messages were sent, what was said, and by whom, should read system log. Obviously system log is not readable all distributions for all users, so syslog is useful to a limit [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg09930.html -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
