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Bug 444838 - net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3: man finger says ~/.project file has a limit of one line of string
Summary: net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3: man finger says ~/.project file has a limit ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Normal trivial
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Keywords: EBUILD, PATCH
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-11-26 19:06 UTC by Dag Erik Vikan
Modified: 2012-12-25 06:49 UTC (History)
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Attachments
netkit-fingerd-0.17-obey-man-pages.patch (netkit-fingerd-0.17-obey-man-pages.patch,556 bytes, patch)
2012-11-26 19:08 UTC, Dag Erik Vikan 		Details | Diff
netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3.ebuild.patch (netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3.ebuild.patch,344 bytes, patch)
2012-11-26 19:08 UTC, Dag Erik Vikan 		Details | Diff
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Description Dag Erik Vikan 2012-11-26 19:06:43 UTC 
finger <username> will happily print out ~/.project no matter how big and how many lines it has. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo "hello \n there \n you" > ~/.project
2. finger `whoami`
3.
Actual Results:  
All lines in the ~/.project is printed.
Comment 1 Dag Erik Vikan 2012-11-26 19:08:33 UTC 
Created attachment 330674 [details, diff]
netkit-fingerd-0.17-obey-man-pages.patch
Comment 2 Dag Erik Vikan 2012-11-26 19:08:57 UTC 
Created attachment 330676 [details, diff]
netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3.ebuild.patch
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-12-25 06:49:57 UTC 
i see no reason to limit it like this.  if you want your ~/.project to be one line, then only put one line into it.