Subject: pkg/32919: net/wistumbler contains an obsolete MESSAGE
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 02/23/2006 18:20:00
>Number: 32919
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: net/wistumbler contains an obsolete MESSAGE
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 23 18:20:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Robert Elz
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.15 (pkgsrc current as of a few hours ago)
>Organization:
Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD jade.coe.psu.ac.th 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 (GENERIC-1.696-20060125) #8: Wed Jan 25 04:59:39 ICT 2006 kre@jade.coe.psu.ac.th:/usr/obj/current/kernels/JADE_ASUS i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
When compiled (or installed, or whatever, this is not important)
net/wistumbler says ...
Please take care not to remove the card for the interface you are watching
with wistumbler(1) -- the process will go into a busy loop and consume all
available CPU time. It can be killed without problems, though.
This was added in response to a PR I filed in 2003. At the
time I also contacted the author of wistumbler. The bug was
fixed a day or so later (if that long), and the fixed version
was in pkgsrc within a week I think...
That message has been there for the past 30 months or so...
(needlessly). (And I have been neglecting to mention it for
all of that time, apologies.)
>How-To-Repeat:
By inspection.
>Fix:
rm ..../pkgsrc/net/wistumbler/MESSAGE
(followed by cvs commit or whatever...)
>Unformatted: