On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:35:20 Vaeth wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > relying on an external program > > The point is that external programs can have all sorts of undesired > side effects. For instance, if an directory is not readable (or > readable but not executable or is on $FILESYSTEM with who-knows-what > permissions or accessability problems) it can cause unexpected > errors which otherwise are treated by "standard" shell behavior: > *This* is why the ls is hackish here, not the readability.
and if you had read all my replies, you would see i already pointed out this problem with the original code > but your attack is inappropriate: might want to review the meanings of these words. i said your examples were worse, not better. i didnt say anything about you personally. the rest of your e-mail isnt worth responding to, so i wont bother. as most likely will any follow up to this. -mike
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