Re: [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Sep 09 2009 - 19:33:20 EST


On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:17:27 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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