Greg Wooledge <greg at wooledge.org> writes: > Robert Bihlmeyer (robbe at debian.org) wrote: > > > Couldn't we just use printf? Which system lacks that but has a working > > java? > > SunOS 4 maybe? I don't know. I do know that my way (which is perl's > way) will work everywhere.
Yeah, except when /tmp is not present. And it will happily overwrite /etc/passwd, too[1]. Rewritten to not use a tempfile. Triply nested quotes will surely break some obscure non-standard platform ... let people using that report a bug. [1] So backporting to 0.5.x may be the right thing. -- Robbe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.ng Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021102/9e5046f4/attachment.pgp>
