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Article #623223Re: Tahoe and Alpha Architectures
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:39
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:39
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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.
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