Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:10:27 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs) |
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> sysconf() routine will look like > > int ngroups = sys_return_NGROUPS(); > if (ngroups < 0) > ngroups = 32; /* Or whatever */ > return ngroups; > > Does anybody really think that the above is beatiful? Multiply the above > by every single new thing that some deranged POSIX.76c standard comes up > with, and it's obviously crap.
<wry> GNU in Not UNIX. Apparently, posession of taste had been deemed too UNIXish, so out it went... </wry>
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