On 05/11/2018 10:28 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2018-05-11, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:[...]I've been introduced to many commands and some of the "logic" of the Linux way of doing things. Thanks everybody.Thanks for keeping things interesting & fun with your (sometimes whimsical ;-) enquiries.I don't recall being whimsical. Weird. Possibly. Been told that for >70 years ;}Yeah. And one man's fun and interesting is another man's so narrow and exiguous a corner case no one but Owlett himself could possibly fit into it.
*ROFL* <*MASSIVE GRIN*> More seriously, the "corner" cases are the valuable ones.Consider a timing race. Is that not a "corner case". And one that requires predictable outcomes.
I spent decades in QA/QC/Engineering Support/Customer Support/... . Just about everything I dealt with was a "corner case". It was fun and "EDUCATIONAL" ;/