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Article #300Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 20:02
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 20:02
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In article <29778:Feb419:26:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >Now you bring in the fourth god of ``number of passes.'' Wtf are you >talking about? The number of passes matters *only* in how it affects >time, space, and human effort. Lots of examples bear this out. An /etc/utmp inspector could easily be foiled is it relies on the contents of /etc/utmp being unchanged between its first and second passes. It's bad enough not being able to lock the file for one pass, but that's probably easier to cope with than a phase error.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap) Message-ID: <15068@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 4 Feb 91 20:02:37 GMT References: <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <21594@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <29778:Feb419:26:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Followup-To: comp.bugs.4bsd Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9