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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:46

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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.

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