On 2013/05/10 13:18, Damien Miller wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 18:57, Arto Jonsson wrote: > > > Taken from netbsd with minor modifications. Comments? > > > > I don't think you've received much feedback. I don't know how other > > developers feel, but the question I have is can't this be done with a > > rather simple awk script? or perl? One of the reasons we have perl in > > base is precisely so it can be used for things like this. > > This implementation has the benefits of being small, having existing > maintainers (NetBSD) and already having been written and debugged. It > seems like make-work to do it over in Perl.
If we do use this implementation, then pascal@'s version from 2011 added some fixes from FreeBSD, http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/25740
