Bug 444838

Summary:	net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3: man finger says ~/.project file has a limit of one line of string
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dag Erik Vikan <dvikan>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial	Keywords:	EBUILD, PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	netkit-fingerd-0.17-obey-man-pages.patch netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3.ebuild.patch

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.