[illumos-Advocates] RTI for: 900 sed errors when -e is given a 0-length argument

Gordon Ross gordon.w.ross at gmail.com
Sun May 1 19:44:02 PDT 2011


FYI, Garry replied to me that he doesn't care if his copyright line is added.

Do we have any guidance for people about when to add a copyright?

I've generally added them only when the change is larger that the
copyright I might add. :)

thoughts?

Gordon

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI, I don't like when people add copyright lines for trivially small changes.
> But I don't think we can prevent it if someone really wants one.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Advocates] RTI for: 900 sed errors when -e is
> given a 0-length argument
> To: Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca>
>
>
> Gary,
>
> One thing I meant to ask you:
>
> Do you sure you want to add a copyright line for this change?
> Your name would be shown as the author in the commit, so
> you'd get credit for the work in any case.
>
> Adding copyrights for small changes can make one seem a
> bit greedy.  Not sure if you were aware of that.
>
> Just to be clear, I'm not directing you either way, just
> trying to make you aware how that may be perceived.
>
> Thanks,
> Gordon
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>> I've attached the `hg export' file for this bug.
>>
>> Here's `hg outgoing -v' output:
>>
>>    running ssh anonhg at hg.illumos.org "hg -R illumos-gate serve --stdio"
>>    remote: Not trusting file /export/illumos/hgrepos/illumos-gate/.hg/hgrc from untrusted user hg, group hg
>>    comparing with ssh://anonhg@hg.illumos.org/illumos-gate
>>    searching for changes
>>    changeset:   13347:0565ff69c6b9
>>    tag:         tip
>>    user:        Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca>
>>    date:        Thu Apr 28 12:40:06 2011 -0500
>>    files:       usr/src/cmd/sed/main.c
>>    description:
>>    900 sed errors when -e is given a 0-length argument
>>
>>
>>    remote: Not trusting file /export/illumos/hgrepos/illumos-gate/.hg/hgrc from untrusted user hg, group hg
>>
>> `hg pbchk' is clean.
>>
>> I didn't use `nightly' to build `sed' although I'm trying to run it
>> now.  Here's how I built it:
>>
>>    $ bldenv ~/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/illumos.sh 'make'
>>    Build type   is  non-DEBUG
>>    RELEASE      is
>>    VERSION      is illumos-gate
>>    RELEASE_DATE is April 2011
>>
>>    The top-level 'setup' target is available to build headers and tools.
>>
>>    Using /bin/ksh as shell.
>>    /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -O  -xspace -Xa  -xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all -erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED -xc99=%none    -W0,-xglobalstatic -v -DTEXT_DOMAIN=\"SUNW_OST_OSCMD\" -D_TS_ERRNO  -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c  main.c
>>    + /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -fident -finline -fno-inline-functions -fno-builtin -fno-asm -nodefaultlibs -D__sun -O -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-parentheses -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-unused -Wno-trigraphs -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-switch -Werror -std=gnu89 -DTEXT_DOMAIN="SUNW_OST_OSCMD" -D_TS_ERRNO -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c main.c -o /tmp/.cwCAAjZayXh.o
>>    + /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -O -xspace -Xa -xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all -erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED -xc99=%none -W0,-xglobalstatic -v -DTEXT_DOMAIN="SUNW_OST_OSCMD" -D_TS_ERRNO -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c main.c
>>    /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -O  -xspace -Xa  -xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all -erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED -xc99=%none    -W0,-xglobalstatic -v -DTEXT_DOMAIN=\"SUNW_OST_OSCMD\" -D_TS_ERRNO  -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Bdirect     -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.noexstk -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.pagealign -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.noexdata main.o compile.o misc.o process.o -o sed -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/lib -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/lib
>>    + /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -O -xspace -Xa -xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all -erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED -xc99=%none -W0,-xglobalstatic -v -DTEXT_DOMAIN="SUNW_OST_OSCMD" -D_TS_ERRNO -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Bdirect -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.noexstk -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.pagealign -M/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.noexdata main.o compile.o misc.o process.o -o sed -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/lib -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/lib
>>    $ bldenv ~/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/illumos.sh 'make lint'
>>    Build type   is  non-DEBUG
>>    RELEASE      is
>>    VERSION      is illumos-gate
>>    RELEASE_DATE is April 2011
>>
>>    The top-level 'setup' target is available to build headers and tools.
>>
>>    Using /bin/ksh as shell.
>>    /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/lint -I/opt/SUNWspro/prod/include/lint -axsm -DTEXT_DOMAIN=\"SUNW_OST_OSCMD\" -D_TS_ERRNO  -I/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/include    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -errtags=yes -s -erroff=E_PTRDIFF_OVERFLOW -erroff=E_ASSIGN_NARROW_CONV -U__PRAGMA_REDEFINE_EXTNAME -Xc99=%none -errsecurity=core -erroff=E_SEC_CREAT_WITHOUT_EXCL -erroff=E_SEC_FORBIDDEN_WARN_CREAT -erroff=E_ASSIGN_INT_TO_SMALL_INT -erroff=E_CAST_INT_CONST_TO_SMALL_INT -erroff=E_CAST_INT_TO_SMALL_INT -erroff=E_CAST_TO_PTR_FROM_INT -erroff=E_COMP_INT_WITH_LARGE_INT -erroff=E_INTEGRAL_CONST_EXP_EXPECTED -erroff=E_PASS_INT_TO_SMALL_INT -erroff=E_PTR_CONV_LOSES_BITS main.c compile.c misc.c process.c -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/lib -L/home/mills/Downloads/code/illumos-gate/proto/root_i386-nd/usr/lib
>>    main.c:
>>    compile.c:
>>    misc.c:
>>    process.c:
>>
>> Here's the behavior of illumos sed as I built it without the fix:
>>
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed -e 's/oo/00/'
>>    f00
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed -e ''
>>    sed: asprintf: Error 0
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed ''
>>    foo
>>
>> This is after the fix:
>>
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed -e 's/oo/00/'
>>    f00
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed -e ''
>>    foo
>>    $ echo foo | ./sed ''
>>    foo
>>
>> --
>> -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
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