[BusyBox] LEAF and ticker

[Serge Caron]

Dear Alex,

Lester B Pearson once said "Diplomacy is the art of letting other people
have it your way." :-))

I am glad to see that the busybox community has the greatest sense of humor.
I will report to the LEAF project that their flagship product, ticker, is
now mainstream busysbox and has found a champion in the person of Alex
Holden.

Best regards,

Serge Caron

PS: You can keep the 96 bytes :-)) ROTFL

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Holden <alex at linuxhacker.org>
To: Serge Caron <scaron at pcevolution.com>
Cc: busybox at busybox.net <busybox at busybox.net>
Date: February 3, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] LEAF and ticker


>Serge Caron wrote:
>
>> It is with tongue in cheek that I submit this busybox applet, ticker, for
>> which we have been budgeting 3Kb since the early release of the Linux
Router
>> Project. It is about time this ticker got a lick.
>
>
>With tongue also held firmly in cheek I humbly submit a version which I
>found to be 96 bytes smaller :)
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>
>int main(void)
>{
> int i;
> char c[] = {'.', 'o', ':', 'O', ':', 'o'};
>
> switch(fork()) {
> case -1:
> return -1;
> case 0:
> setbuf(stdout, 0);
> putchar(' ');
> while(1) {
> for(i = 0; i < sizeof(c); i++) {
> putchar('\b');
> putchar(c[i]);
> sleep(1);
> }
> }
> }
> return 0;
>}
>
>[cue frantic attempts to beat me by another 100 bytes]
>
>--
>------------ Alex Holden - http://www.linuxhacker.org ------------
>If it doesn't work, you're not hitting it with a big enough hammer
>
>