Two diffs to add paramater self-checking

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Jul 15 15:13:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jay Ts wrote:

> Now just waitaminute ... what I wrote was:
> 
> + If the actual behavior is different from that, then I would
> + like to request that the smb.conf manual page be updated.
> 
> not,
> 
> - If the actual behavior is different from that, then I would
> - like to update the smb.conf manual page.

What? Sorry.  I don't see the difference.  :-)

> Seriously, is it asking too much for whomever is writing 
> the code to be the one who makes sure the published documentation 
> matches the behavior of the program?

We try extremely hard, but sometime codes suffers from evolutionary 
features where behavior mutates.  We rely on a lot of help from the 
community to avoid this.  Hence my request for help.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a person to write SGML and he'll send 
you patches. :-)






cheers, jerry
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