Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X Leopard's warnx(3)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38488; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X Leopard's 
warnx(3)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:21:23 +0100

 On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:20:03PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/38488; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X
 >      Leopard's warnx(3)
 > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:14:23 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:35:03PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  >  ...however, since in general messages passed to warnx() shouldn't
 >  >  contain explicit newlines, maybe the real problem is that pkg_install
 >  >  does this somewhere?
 >  
 >  Some have newlines without good reason, some are using multi-line
 >  statements explicitly.
 
 And some statements use "\t" to print tabulators.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/