Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:57:12 +0200 | From | Thierry Danis <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:33:26PM -0600, Kelley Spoon wrote: > > On 8 Jun 1999, Scott Jaderholm wrote: > > > It seems to me that if you are trying to make an OS that is going to be > > used by the masses you would try and present yourselves as best as > > possible. Using profanity to document your code doesn't seem all that > > appealing to me, but I don't know about others. > > > Is it really necessary? Someone could easily put "messed up" in place > > of it. > > Someone else brought up the point about censoring work other people > contributed, and I agree with that. I have absolutely no problem > with a developer calling a spade a spade. > > However. For those with delicate sensibilities, I present a humble > patch made against the 2.2.9 kernel source. It merely adds a make > rule that calls a fairly lame shell script to replace the naughty > words with something a little more Donna Reed. > > Chance that it breaks something important: high > Chance that it catches all the bad words : low > > But it should be enough to get you started on leading the project > to wash out the kernel source's mouth with soap. > > cp repent.patch /usr/src/linux > cd /usr/src/linux > patch -p1 < repent.patch > > make repent > > And rest easy knowing that you're one of the elite few who are > running a saintly Linux kernel that will probably throw errors > at you left and right as you try to compile it. > > > Take it easy, > > -- > Kelley Spoon <kspoon@turbolinux.com>
And what about a patch to internationalize the output strings ? Should it keep "profanity" expressions :-) (not every end user is able to fully appreciate english "profanity").
A+, -- Thierry Danis Poste : 53 53 danis@spmo.sagem.fr
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