From: Chris Cappuccio Subject: Re: Outstanding patches on bugs@ To: henrichhartzer@tuta.io Cc: Tech Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 20:46:50 -0700 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.