http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/88486 This patch was supplied 2 years ago now. It doesn't change current/ expected behavior but does allow those of us with many, many systems to not get useless e-mail. It's not even my patch! I would simply like to see this done... -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation Support Phone: 408-400-0550
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:47:48PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/88486 > > This patch was supplied 2 years ago now. It doesn't change current/ > expected behavior but does allow those of us with many, many systems > to not get useless e-mail. > > It's not even my patch! I would simply like to see this done...I second that notion. Isn't the *nix model to be quiet when everything is OK? Dan
This is a no brainer. The patch seems to retain the current behavior. The desired behavior is on a knob. It doesn't run enough to worry about the extra cycles to run the conditional. A superficial googling will show that emitting messages when there's no exception is a human factors boo-boo, therefore this is a bug fix or at least not a request for spurious feature. Even though the present incarnation appears to be (IMO) borked, least surprise doctrine and inertia suggests committing the patch and moving on.