Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:32:12 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value |
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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.
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