On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:12:43 -0500
Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
This code has two purposes: if you have a & in the GECOS field, it
substitutes in your login name in to your real name field.
Personally I always found this feature a bit dubious, and from my
experience not much supports that. I propose we just junk this
support.
since none of my other tools support '&' expansion in the gecos field i
can't use it even if nmh did keep doing it. so, i am +1 for removal.
The other use of BSD42 seems to be in msh.c; basically, if we get
interrupted in a signal, longjmp() out of the signal handler back
to the main command loop. I guess this code was before signals
interrupted system calls? Anyway, I am thinking that this can be
junked as well. Any objections?
no objection from me on that. if a system lacks posix signals it will
likely also lack an ansi c compiler.
(Okay, for purists; BSD42 also controls the use of the MIME content
cache, for reasons I do not pretend to understand).
maybe just remove the #ifdef :-) ?
--
Paul Vixie
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