[Swan-dev] pointless test failures

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Thu Jul 30 22:45:13 EEST 2015


On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | I'll undo the parts related to audit logs.
>
> Ahh.  Part of out UX engineering is that all state numbers presented
> in logs start with #.  If this exception is necessary, that's OK.  But
> it would be better if we found that the # would be OK.
>
> It seems unlikely that the structure of the value of constate would
> matter to other programs since it is really only an internal Pluto
> artifact.

It matters because the audit logs are dumped on the system and the audit
library and tools have special syntax and meaning which we don't all
know. For instance we cannot just add "=" symbols either. So I'd rather
not add special sumbols.

> The format effector used before my change was wrong (d for an
> unsigned).  Don't revert that part.

Oki :)

Paul


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