[Gllug] Building Intranet Kiosks

[Nix]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Kieran Barry said:
> As someone pointed out, Jamie Zawinsky is doing this at his club, DNA

`Zawinski'.

> The bit I liked best was his fastboot.c which doesn't bother with
> fscking the filesystems:

... but does do a triple-sync for no good reason.

(btw *no* /sbin/halt bothers to fsck; do you mean `doesn't bother to
unmount'?)

>   sync ();
>   sleep (1);
>   sync ();
>   sleep (1);
>   sync ();

`Mummy why I am doing this?'
`Superstition.'

-- 
`I'm not sure whether libtool is an existence proof that you _can_
 write a shell script that handles its arguments correctly, or a
 demonstration that you may try but you are doomed to failure.'
                                                       -- Zack Weinberg


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