Re: Top 9 kernel oopses/warnings for the week of December 29th, 2007

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > hmmm.. the copy in my Sent folder looks fine, as does the one in the lkml
> > archive:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/29/41
> > 
> > This is distinctly weird.
> 
> Ahh, it seems to be a alpine bug. Probably brought on by alpine trying to 
> highlight the web addresses.
> 
> It doesn't always happen - between Rank 3 and Rank 4, you have an empty 
> line, and alpine reacted correctly to that one, but the "empty" line 
> between Rank 1 and Rank 2 actually contained a single TAB, and that 
> apparently made alpine really confused.
> 
> So never mind. I'll make a bug-report on alpine, it wasn't a bug in your 
> email.

The bug is also present in the original branch, called pine 4.64 ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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