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From: pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Real Men pipe to sh
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Date: 9 May 91 18:29:40 GMT
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subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) wrote:
>In article <steve.6025@amidillo.UUCP> steve@amidillo.UUCP (Stephen ("The Armadillo with the Mask") Okay) writes:
>>Here's something I cooked up to keep everybody 'cept me off our operator
>>consoles. People learn not to use a certain tty real quick. (Yeah, I know 
>>I could hack login.c, but this was so much more fun! }:) )
>
>Sorry - sh just doesn't cut it. Real men use perl :-)
...
>for (;;) {;}

Real men don't use busy waits.  Try "sleep;".

>This'll keep EVERYONE off of your machine (as far as a tty is concerned).

Interesting, though it's not what the original poster was talking about.

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              Paul Falstad  pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu
         And on the roads, too, vicious gangs of KEEP LEFT signs!
     If Princeton knew my opinions, they'd have expelled me long ago.