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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, hugh@veritas.com,
	jpirko@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:32:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909163212.11464d64.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910081020.9CAE.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:17:27 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> 
> > The changelog had lots of ^------- lines in it.  But those are
> > conventionally the end-of-changelog separator so I rewrote them to
> > ^=======
> 
> sorry, I have stupid question.
> I thought "--" and "---" have special meaning. but other length "-" are safe.
> Is this incorrect?
> 
> or You mean it's easy confusing bad style?

Ideally, ^---$ is the only pattern we need to worry about.

In the real world, ^-------- might trigger people's sloppy scripts so
it's best to be safe and avoid it altogether.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-30 11:15 [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-31 10:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2008-12-31 12:42   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-31 18:08     ` Jiri Pirko
2009-01-03 17:59     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-03 21:13       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-05 15:32         ` Jiri Pirko
2009-01-05 22:13           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-06  9:48             ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-02 20:47               ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-02 21:13                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-05  8:49                   ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-05 17:24                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-04-06  0:21                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-06  7:22                         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-17 20:21                           ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-18  0:57                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-07  2:58                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-09 20:46                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-09 23:17                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-09 23:32                                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-09 23:37                                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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