henrichhartzer@tuta.io [henrichhartzer@tuta.io] wrote:
> Hi OpenBSD developers,
> 
> I've been curious about dabbling in OpenBSD development. I decided to skim through the bug@ and tech@ archives to see how the process looked.
> 
> I spotted this email from over a week ago:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171515540220608&w=2
> 
> Piotr has submitted four patches over the past ten years and none have landed. To my untrained eye, all are small, simple, and seem quite reasonable. One of them has a response, but the rest have none.
> 

These diffs warrant further discussion. Piotr should be posting them to tech@ as bugs@ gets less views. Examples of other systems that that do similar things in similar areas (such as checking ftruncate return values if S_ISREG) are also important because some of these changes could have unintended consequences in widely used utilities.