stat(), lstat() again.
Jim Jagielski
jim at jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Sep 18 03:09:55 AEST 1990
In article <4062 at ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer at ursa-major.spdcc.com.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>>PPS: I understand C quite well thank you...
>
>It doesn't seem so.
>
>I would be very wary of taking a device driver written by someone who
>exhibits the kind of misunderstanding of pointers which you have here.
>This is not a personal dig, just a reasonable observation.
>
>--
FLAME ON: Okay. so it was a friday and I was tired and I wrote a posting
before I stopped to see what the hell I was writing. True, I was trying to
save face with all this crap about compilers and so forth. However, these
were observations from myself, others and assembler code from 3 different
compilers running through this self same code. Some compilers WON'T let
you pass structures to functions as is canon K&R. Some compilers WILL,
when you tell the pointer to point to NULL, have the pointer point to
space which is big enuff for whatever the pointer is a pointer to. This is
a fact. What the problem was was that I was looking at the code without
THINKING about the code... I guess someone as perfect as you has never done
THAT before. As far as you thinking I don't understand C, well, I beg to
differ. Everyone has off days with C and can't recall what they wrote or
what they mean, except of course yourself. I've written a bunch of C code,
dude and it hasn't been all 100% perfect, but no one's is, except yours,
of course.
I can't wait till YOU make a mistake, so I can knock your ass down!
PS: What device drivers are you talking about asshole? The EtherPortII
drivers???????? THEY are from Kinetics... I simply tared them together
and made them available to people... oh yeah, I DID happen to change
a "BNET" to "bnet_dr" in the install script... Hope to hell I can
use vi to your satisfaction! I could go on about you thinking that I
wrote these drivers as being a stupid mistake, but I won't.
FLAME OFF:
Now, we return you to your regularly scheduled group...
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Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1
jim at jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771
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