Add note/reminder about dialog(1) regression in HEAD/10.0-C so that we don't

forget about it in the multi-month run of things to fix prior to 10.0-R.
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Devin Teske 2013-08-27 16:10:44 +00:00
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@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
20130827:
Thomas Dickey (vendor author thereof) reports that dialog(1) since
2011/10/18 has a bug in handling --hline. Testers and I noticed the
--hline is not ignored but displayed as a NULL string, regardless of
value. This will cause confusion in some bsdconfig dialogs where the
--hline is used to inform users which keybindings to use. This will
likewise affect any other persons relying on --hline. It also looks
rather strange seeing "[]" at the bottom of dialog(1) widgets when
passing --hline "anything". Thomas said he will have a look in a few
weeks. NOTE: The "[]" brackets appear with the left-edge where it
would normally appear given the width of text to display, but the
displayed text is not there (part of the bug).
20130821:
The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be