justin@shiningsilence.com wrote:
>>Kirk? Kirk who? Are you talking about Kirk McKusick? Does he actually
>>hang out around these parts? How would one go about asking him such a
>>question?
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>I don't think he reads the DragonFly lists, but he is probably reachable
>at mckusick@mckusick.com, going by his webpages.
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I see. Well, after looking at the code a bit more carefully next week, I
might try sending him a delicately-worded question or two. Might as well
fix what I can fix in userland without worrying about system interfaces,
first. If it isn't WARNS=6---oh, well. No point in allocating temporary
string objects and duplicating before passing to interfaces that can't
be made constant, but which never modify strings. Such a pedantic
exercise would probably be of net negative value, at least with respect
to the presumed motivations for eliminating compiler warnings (i.e.,
safety and maintainability).