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From: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
Message-ID: <8910@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 91 17:45:59 GMT
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>
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In article <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <1991Feb2.045119.22199@zoo.toronto.edu> geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) writes:
>> Dan Bernstein, in response to Ozan Yigit:
>> > To rephrase: You don't seem to know what good programming techniques are.
>> From pty/master.c:
>
>Yes, what's your point? I have several hundred notes on pieces of pty
>that could be improved. In the list I find ``check for phys I/O errors
>on reading fdsess''; that's the only problem with the section of code
>you quoted.

      (Delete MANY lines of him defending his code)

      Well, I have no idea what his point was, but I have one:

      If I were your manager, I'd ding you REAL hard for writing semi-obscure
code with such a dearth of comments. Now, if he deleted them, then fine, but
since I didn't see you post any in your defense, I'll have to assume that they
don't exist.

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