fault toleratant shell scripts
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Mar 15 16:39:47 PST 2004
You'll never BELIEVE what Brian K. White said here...:
>
> The source is riddled with bad assumptions.
[snip]
> Looks like simple but tedious stuff so far, so it looks like it will be able
> to be built on sco, just that every time I fix something it only gets a tiny
> bit further and hits something else. The things have so far been fixable but
> I just can't give it any more time at the moment.
>
> Given the above, and given that the supposed point of the utility is to make
> more robust scripts, maybe it shouldn't be trusted much even when it becomes
> available?
Sorry, but just because something doesn't compile out of the box on SCO
doesn't mean it's not trustworthy, nor does it mean it's riddled with bad
assumptions. More likely, it simply has prerequisites that SCO simply
doesn't fulfill.
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