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Re: ADB mouse not wroking on 9600/200



On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:11:38PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:27:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > if [ `id -u` != 0 ] ; then
> >         echo 1>&2 "You are not root, go away"
> >         exit 1
> > fi
> Heh, funny. :)

 Even better is code that calls getpwnam, and, on failure, prints "you don't
exist, go away".  minicom does this.  I once created an account for testing
purposes, then deleted it while still logged in.  I didn't exist!  :(

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#define X(x,y) x##y
Peter Cordes ;  e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)

"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
 Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
 my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE



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