Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:53:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:59:01AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat. > > > > well, its a 395 byte shell script that does the same thing as exit 1, > but it's cute :) Surely you want to know the version of your lies... :) > > You might think of it as an example, same as the `hello' package.
Solaris:
#!/usr/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T # All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T # The copyright notice above does not evidence any # actual or intended publication of such source code.
#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */ [obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.]
At least /bin/false on the Linux box doesn't start with pompous legalese (unusual for GNU stuff, but I guess that even RMS had enough sense not to toss GPL over the usage of exit).
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