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Article #624790Re: The Peter Principle
From: Dan Espen
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:00
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:00
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: > On 7/6/2018 2:37 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2018-07-06, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> >>> On 6 Jul 2018 15:50:16 GMT >>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-07-06, Gareth's Downstairs Computer >>>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Do incompetent computer programmers become technical authors? >>>> >>>> Nah, they go straight into management. >>> >>> Yep, the sad thing is when it happens to competent programmers. >> >> Which brings to mind that old Unix joke: >> >> A programmer went into management and turned out to be quite good at it. >> One of his old buddies, remembering how much fun he had as a programmer, >> asked him whether he ever considered moving back. "No," the manager >> said. "As you know, there is no return for a successful exec()." >> > Can an unsuccessful exec() call return??? And where would it return to??? The answer is in the man page: RETURN VALUES If a function in the exec family returns to the calling process image, an error has occurred; the return value is -1 and errno is set to indicate the error. -- Dan Espen
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