Xref: utzoo comp.bugs.4bsd:1743 comp.lang.c:35881 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!necisa!boyd From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap) Message-ID: <2013@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au> Date: 7 Feb 91 03:33:26 GMT References: <1991Feb2.045119.22199@zoo.toronto.edu> <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <27AD7A46.343B@tct.uucp> <10210:Feb505:10:2991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia Pty. Ltd. Lines: 13 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@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''