Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X Leopard's warnx(3)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38488; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X Leopard's 
warnx(3)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:28:26 +0100

 On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/38488; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/38488: "pkg_install" package shouldn't use Mac OS X
 >      Leopard's warnx(3)
 > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:44:49 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:50:00AM +0000, tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  > "pkg_install" uses warnx(3) a lot the problem is that it behaves 
 > differently
 >  > under Mac OS X Leopard:
 >  
 >  The difference is whether it prints a trailing \n or that it doesn't
 >  interprete escape sequences?
 
 It seems to escape certain characters (at least LF) and print it as '\n'.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/