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Article #623215Re: Tahoe and Alpha Architectures
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:58
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:58
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Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> writes: >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. Bin true does nothing more than exit. $ ltrace true __libc_start_main(0x401260, 1, 0x7fff32d19f28, 0x403420, 0x403410 <unfinished ...> exit(0 <unfinished ...> +++ exited (status 0) +++
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