[Gllug] War Stories

[Richard Jones]

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.

Rich.

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