Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Tue Feb 5 06:37:04 AEST 1991
In article <W~%&'N at uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb at 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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