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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:33

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On 4/27/2018 9:46 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:27:16 -0500
> d...@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) wrote:
> 
>>   > > 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, ...
> 
> 	Wow! Why ?
> 
> 	Apart from comments the BSD version of true is:
> 
> int
> main(void)
> {
>      return 0;
> }
> 
> 	It used to be an executable empty file but this is lighter than
> invoking a shell just to return 0.
> 
>> I sincerely doubt all of that comes anywhere near 100%.
> 
> 	I think the BSD one does.
> 

True should return *one*...  zero is false.

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