Re: Vancouver keysigning request

2002-04-13 Thread elf
I'm in Seattle, Washington. I'll keep your addresses on file for when I make my next visit to BC. On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:10:46PM -0700, Norman Jordan wrote: > I am a developer in Victoria. I don't go to Vancouver very often but I > can sign keys for people in Victoria. > > On Sat, Apr 13, 20

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-15 Thread elf
Good grief. Can you be more constructive? Do you have a reference that supports the claim? On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:11:35AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I don't find any such mention in K&R [1978]. There is nothing I can > > see to guarantees that MAX_

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread elf
I don't find any such mention in K&R [1978]. There is nothing I can see to guarantees that MAX_INT + 1 < 0. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:56:19AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:03:59AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > I yet have to see a machine that does not u

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread elf
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:01:37PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:58:57AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Why don't you "man fts_read" and implement the correct way of checking > > > for errors? > > > > I believe the author wrote the original loop because the fts_

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread elf
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:36:48PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:04:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [How to write bad code] > > Why don't you "man fts_read" and implement the correct way of checking > for errors? I believe the author wrote the original loop bec

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread elf
Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:49:09PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:01:17AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > > > On 13/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > | int i; > > > | for (i = 0; i > -1

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread elf
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:01:17AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 13/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > | int i; > | for (i = 0; i > -1; i += 1) { > | // ... > | if (terminal_condition) > | break; > | // ... > | } > [...] > | Moreover, i is never used. The loop co

Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-13 Thread elf
int i; for (i = 0; i > -1; i += 1) { // ... if (terminal_condition) break; // ... } Let me be more explicit. I'm reading the slocate code to figure out why it isn't producing a database on my machine. There is a loop that reads int i; // ... for (i = 0; i > -1

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

2002-01-07 Thread elf
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:13:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installe

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

2002-01-07 Thread elf
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:22:44PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > >I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > >mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > >mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > >to be installe

Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

2002-01-07 Thread elf
I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about finding the smtp agen

NFS Servers, deadlocks and symlinks

2002-01-06 Thread elf
I'll start with the question(s) for the impatient. Is anyone experiencing deadlocks between nfs-kernel-server and ext3? How about symlink errors using nfs-user-server? There is nothing in the debian bugs database about either of these problems. Nor is there anything about the ext3 deadlock in g

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-31 Thread elf
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to always explicitly > declare all char variables as signed or unsigned; otherwise, you're just > asking for latent bugs. IMHO, this is a peculiar statement. The type 'char' is best