boyd would put keys in pipes so core dumps (incidental or nasty) wouldn't give them away. interesting to think about, given my current plumbing problems (water not bytes).
brucee On 3/26/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > > > much like the old trick of storing a byte in a pipe > > and using it as an interprocess lock. > > It's a brilliant trick. It let us write some very portable code (to > windows, too, no less) with almost no effort. Don't knock > inginuity. (Or insanity. But that's just labels ...) > > --lyndon >
