Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au
Thu Feb 7 14:33:26 AEST 1991


Come on Dan, I've told you before.  Check those error conditions.

Weird things happen.  Just chmod 0 /dev/tty and watch your UNIX
machine go absolutely ga-ga on you, and _none_ of tools that break
will say anything of any worth about the problem.  Presumably because
they were written with the philosophy that states `X will ever happen'.

And I thought it was warm here.  There's nothing quite like a Dan flame-fest.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''



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