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From: Dan Espen
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:39

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d...@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:

>  > > Name one program sold by _anybody_ that is "100% guaranteed to work
>  > > pefectly".
>
>  >         /bin/true
>
> The common linux version of /bin/true these days uses locale,
> .po files, parses command line arguments, ...
>
> I sincerely doubt all of that comes anywhere near 100%.

Looks like just the basic stuff:

 \> ldd /bin/true
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcc69d3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5648bd8000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f56491b8000)

"true" is a bash builtin so the "linux version" is NOT /bin/true.

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Dan Espen

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