svn commit: trunk/busybox

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 11 May 2006 5:54 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > However the relevant tools for dealing with filenames from scripts
> > > process _text files_ which cannot contain NUL. Adding GNU extensions
> > > that require tools to somehow deal with NUL (which greatly complicates
> > > the implementation of these tools and adds to bloat) is hardly
> > > worthwhile, considering that someone who makes a filename containing
> > > \n is just an idiot.
> >
> > You know, I think part of the reason I'm ignoring what you have to say is
> > attitude.  Not "X makes it harder to build on macintosh", but "X is
> > stupid because I don't like it".  Random example:
>
> Point taken. For what it's worth most of the things I've complained
> about have actually caused something to break for me in the past.

That's good to know, then.

> Others are just cases where something _could_ mysteriously break and
> it would be better (IMO) to handle it in a foolproof way.

There is no such thing, and down the road of defensive programming lies 
madness.  (And bloat.)

> But this is not my project to butt in on, so sorry about that.

We welcome all well-meant contributions, including comments and suggestions.  
But we also say "no" to a lot of them, and implying that isn't a reasonable 
option is bad form.

Rob
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