Re: bin/52432: /etc/dumpdates format egregious

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/52432; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: Greywolf <greywolf%starwolf.com@localhost>
Cc: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/52432: /etc/dumpdates format egregious
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:03:20 +0700

 I think this discussion has drifted away from the point, just rest
 assured that nothing I am considering will have any effect on anything
 related to restore (or restoresymtab) (by which I do not mean that there
 are no improvements possible, just none I can think of at the minute...)
 
 All I am considering (and have been for years, while doing nothing about
 it, so...) is altering the format/location of the dumpdates file to make
 it a better fit for the way dumps are done today, rather that the way they
 were done in 1979 (or whenever) - which will (almost certainly) mean getting
 rid of 500 bytes of meaningless space padding that has no useful purpose,
 and was the subject of the PR.
 
 kre