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From: geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer)
Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.051432.2846@zoo.toronto.edu>
Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21548@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
	<1991Feb2.045119.22199@zoo.toronto.edu>
	<14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 1991 05:14:32 GMT

Dan,

I didn't exclude the XXX comment from the pty code excerpt to hide
anything, it merely seemed redundant given the code that followed
(surely all those (void) casts are a reminder that this code is
incomplete and needs to be finished; to intend otherwise would be
unprofessional).

From pty.1:

	.SH BUGS
	None known, but they're probably hiding somewhere.

Fascinating; this would seem to be at odds with the XXX comment.

I also don't consider that code excerpt to be at all atypical of pty; I
have read the entire pty source, and the excerpted code is fairly
typical, in fact it was picked at random.

Given your cavalier disregard for errors and apparent incomprehension
of possible sources of error, I don't think you are in any position to
criticise another's programming technique, let alone Ozan's.  I shall
be polite here and refrain from any further comment on the programming
technique so stunningly displayed by pty.

And I'm not going to argue this for ten weeks.  Don't you have a job or
thesis to keep you busy?
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!geoff, zoo.toronto.edu!geoff