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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: perror - (was Re: redirecting output)
Message-ID: <1796@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 8 Jul 90 07:56:32 GMT
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In article <1990Jul7.020719.14239@bhpese.oz.au> Sm@bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees) writes:
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>I've never come across the need for the *++my_name == '\0' check, has
>anybody else?  Boyd?
>

Well, I haven't seen it, but it can happen.

But, the day someone goes...

    p = "/bin/junk/";

    execl(p, p, ..., (char *)0);

Or:

    $ /bin/junk/ ...

I don't want my messages to say:

    : Could not save "the world".  Not owner

The philosophy of ``it'll never* happen, so don't code for it'' is _wrong_.


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

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

* never  == low probability, but still possible