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Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited |
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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:25:31 -0400 |
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On 6/7/13 10:48 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:19:44 -0400
> Greg Wooledge articulated:
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>> Yes it can. You're talking about adding a ridiculous amount of extra
>> checking and performance penalty to try to avoid users shooting
>> themselves in the foot *on Unix*.
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> The job of the OS is not to prevent a user from shooting themselves in
> the foot, but rather to deliver the bullet as efficiently as possible.
Bash will not stop a user from shooting himself in the foot. If asked, it
will obediently load the gun.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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- Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited, jidanni, 2013/06/07
- Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited, jidanni, 2013/06/07
- Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited, Chet Ramey, 2013/06/07
- Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited, jidanni, 2013/06/07
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- Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited, Linda Walsh, 2013/06/10