Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:32:12 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:17:27 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> 
> > The changelog had lots of ^------- lines in it.  But those are
> > conventionally the end-of-changelog separator so I rewrote them to
> > ^=======
> 
> sorry, I have stupid question.
> I thought "--" and "---" have special meaning. but other length "-" are safe.
> Is this incorrect?
> 
> or You mean it's easy confusing bad style?

Ideally, ^---$ is the only pattern we need to worry about.

In the real world, ^-------- might trigger people's sloppy scripts so
it's best to be safe and avoid it altogether.

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