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Patches/Commits

From: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:22:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] monitoring: protocol: connection: args instead of {...}

args is defined, use it.

---
 agents/monitoring/default/protocol/connection.lua |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/agents/monitoring/default/protocol/connection.lua b/agents/monitoring/default/protocol/connection.lua
index 703f91c..f1eeae1 100644
--- a/agents/monitoring/default/protocol/connection.lua
+++ b/agents/monitoring/default/protocol/connection.lua
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ function AgentProtocolConnection:respond(name, ...)
     callback(err)
     return
   else
-    return method(self, unpack({...}))
+    return method(self, unpack(args))
   end
 end

Lots and lots of patches

Peer Review (mailing lists)

On Tue, 26.06.12 18:58, Shawn Landden (shawnlandden@gmail.com) wrote:

Heya,

> diff --git a/man/systemd-analyze.xml b/man/systemd-analyze.xml
> index 960ae7d..c2ff9cc 100644
> --- a/man/systemd-analyze.xml
> +++ b/man/systemd-analyze.xml
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
>  
>                  <variablelist>
>                          <varlistentry>
> -                                <term><option>--h</option></term>
> +                                <term><option>-h</option></term>
>                                  <term><option>--help</option></term>
>  
>                                  <listitem><para>Prints a short help

Thanks, applied! (And also fixed the same typo at all the other places
that were copy and pasted from the same place)

Lennart

Peer Review (github)

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