From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:37:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/15] mingw: implement syslog
Message-ID: <20101011223746.GA6637@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinkpTavtw3Rmubfht56tzGnHckHXRc0L-C83daE@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> The string gets inlined into itself (with a limit of 100 expansions)
> leading to string like "foo %1 bar" becoming "foo foo foo ... foo %1
> bar bar bar ... bar". With our expansion, it becomes "foo % 1 bar"
> instead.

Ah, ok.  Sounds like there is no need to worry about requests for "%%1"
etc.  Thanks for explaining.

Maybe the symptoms and cases not covered (%2, %%1) would be worth
mentioning in the log message?