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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 19:37:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.045119.22199@zoo.toronto.edu> <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <W~%&'N@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
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In article <W~%&'N@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@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.