Re: adopting lslk

Karel Zak
2012-01-25T09:37:11Z

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:54:45PM +0100, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> I just noticed this big fat message from the lslk(8) manpage:
>
> Revision 1.29 represents the end of life for lslk. I don't have time
> to support it. Please don't report bugs to me. I will politely
> decline to work on them.

Yes, I know, I'm maintainer of the package in Red Hat :-)

> I was thinking util-linux might be a good place to continue maintaining

I agree.

> this program, it seems worthwhile. I couldn't find the _official_ source
> tarball but I got it through apt. I could integrate it and send a patch.
> Any thoughts?

Yes, but please clean up the code, add xalloc, err.h, long options,
etc... you know ;-) May be it would be also nice to use lib/tt.c for
output to make it compatible with our new utils.

Karel

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