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Article #624791Re: The Peter Principle
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:05
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:05
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On 7/6/2018 8:00 PM, Dan Espen wrote: > 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. > The calling process for exec() must be the child process. ISTM the child process must signal the parent process and abort... if exec() fails. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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