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Article #299Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 19:37
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 19:37
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In article <W~%&'N@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
> > > (void) chdir("..");
> > This is guaranteed to work.
> Really. Tell me about it.
I started the article with a blanket disclaimer saying that the code
still had to handle hard I/O errors. Do I need to say ``other than
the fatal errors mentioned above'' in every sentence so that you don't
quote me out of context? Sheesh.
---Dan
Stupidity, n.: An overwhelming desire to rewrite one-line shell scripts
as 36-line Perl scripts so they run 6% faster. See Christiansen, Tommy.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!think.com!paperboy!hsdndev!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap) Message-ID: <284:Feb419:37:0491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 19:37:04 GMT References: <1991Feb2.045119.22199@zoo.toronto.edu> <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <W~%&'N@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Organization: IR Lines: 13