Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/bin/ls
To: None <source-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/09/2006 21:12:16
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > > It's in lib/libc/gen/vis.c, so it seems to be missing in the manual page
> > > for vis(3). I've added it there.
> >
> > That encoding is a bit on the bizarre side. All the other encodings
> > used are parsable by C. This one is not. Should it even be done this
> > way at all?
>
> *shrug* It appears to have been done this way since the initial import
> of the file. What else might actually rely on it doing '\s'?
We should move this to tech-userlevel.
--apb (Alan Barrett)