[Gllug] War Stories

[Nix]

On 5 Jul 2007, Richard Jones outgrape:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:05:57PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> ... popen()ing `ps -ef' and grepping the result.
>> 
>> Way to go for high-performance nonblocking I/O, guys. All that effort
>> and then you blow it in one ten-line routine. I can't imagine the
>> mindset that led to that (and yes, the whole thing was written by
>> the same person at the same time: this wasn't and-then-a-maintenance-
>> programmer-cocked-it-up stuff).
>
> Ouch .. nice!  I feel we should have a War Stories thread.

I thought we had multiple entire groups for that? ;)

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