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From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:40

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:39:27 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:33:29 -0500
> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
>      In C yes, but the value returned by main is handed to the 
execution
> environment, in this case a shell where 0 is true and any non-zero 
value
> false.
> 

-1 is true all else is false. Bring back ones complement! </loony 
heretic>

-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

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