On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:39 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote: > >On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 05:18 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] > >> Turning on warnings also highlights other silly coding bugs, but I'll > >> leave those for other people. > > > >Hey, let's start a flame war about the unnecessary use of C in > >non-core functionality!!! > > I agree with you, actually. ud is a perfect example of an app where C > is very much the Wrong Thing. From scanning the source, I'd replace it > with a small shell/perl/python script running out cron if I cared > enough for what it does... At one time, back in my Mandrake days, I had such a python script, that got daemonized at boot. Then, every 5 seconds, it updated a record file. If you ran it in --client mode, it dumped the record of uptimes, by either date or longest uptime. Got lost in the conversion to Debian, back before Woody, though. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "But a much bigger business is selling anti-spam software. This is a billion dollar market, and it is rapidly growing. Any simple and effective solution against spam would defeat revenues and drive several companies into bankrupt, would make consultants jobless. ... Have a single, simple, and permanent solution to the problem and - boom - this billion dollar market is dead. That's one of the reasons why people are expected to live with spam. They have to live with it to make them buy anti-spam software. Content filters are perfect products to keep this market alive." Hadmut Danisch
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