Phill Macey:
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> On 14/05/2012 5:29 AM, "Wietse Venema" <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The fix is easy: report both the first and last line number.
> > >
> > > % postconf -c /tmp
> > > postconf: fatal: /tmp/main.cf, line 1:2: missing '=' after
> > > attribute name: "some random free text"
> >
>
> Dunno about everyone else but when I see 'line 1:2' I tend to think line 1
> character 2. Why not use 'line 1-2' to specify a range instead?
The patch as posted is suitable for a stable release. The "nice"
solution requires a proper line number formatting primitive, to
represent the most common case as a single number.
Wietse
