CODE ONLY POLICY: skip in total On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 at 05:55, Roberto A. Foglietta <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 22:55, Rob Landley via busybox > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 8/6/26 21:30, G. Branden Robinson via busybox wrote: > > > [looping in busybox mailing list; Bruno found a sed portability problem] > > > > > > Background: > > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68601 > > > > > > Hi Bruno, > > > > > > At 2026-08-06T18:07:55+0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > >> I wrote: > > >>> The reason is that the 'sed' program on this platform (from BusyBox) > > >>> ignores '-e' options when a '-f' option is present, regardless > > >>> whether the '-e' options come before or after the '-f' option. > > > > Which apparently nobody noticed for 20 years. > > Or nobody cared about it for 20 years, which is apparently the same > thing but it isn't.
It was "or nobody cared to notify about it" -- Anyway, this link might be interesting in talking about this subject: - https://github.com/vda-linux/busybox_mirror/pull/30 *** > This was found by running Claude Code through Semgrep's > defending_code_harness harness, which also suggested the fix. Please ask Claude to create a test case to add in the busybox test suite. With the test case, the patch is complete in its essence as part of a system testing. Otherwise, we will continue living in a state of "hoping it works, but we do not know if something new breaks something else". I can agree that adding this test doesn't solve the general problem but it is a step towards the right direction. And whatever we are going to buy the bread or climb the K2, the first step in the right direction is the fundamental step. Who took busybox.net and the network resources wasn't aware that the system test, the **only** valuable part of busybox, since the code is a "commodity" universally available, if ever existed in a form of a digital system, it was **not** transferred with the busybox.net resources. Preparation and understanding aren't optionals. *** To get back to the specific topic and provide a broader outlook about it -- it necessary a premise: when someone highlights a coding error that I did, they do me a favor because my idea of "hacking" is making enough mistakes until the software works. By contrast, those who believe that a hacker is never wrong lives in a state of constant and unbearable pressure because every mistake is an attack to a Truth that s/he interiorised as self. The contrast is evident: 1. it is not me, it is a step forward VS 2. it is not about coding, it is about me. And I am writing this having presented myself as [email protected] (where the "me" is the person behind that name, not the ego). Plus every person has -- in a social context -- a personage. A mask for the many who are not within their inner circle. And this is perfectly fine. The opposite is a set of fragility seeking for a psicodrama incident. Once, made this premise, we are ready to face the TOPIC and the topic is about -- our perception of reality is an illusion and its narrative is our jail -- many people prefer to die defending or fighting their mind-jails rather than face the reality. Two very relevant cases that are universal: those who prefer to die rather than face poverty, those who invented the fiat-currency (money from nothing) to avoid confrontations about principles and then reach the absurdity that paying money or having money requires a "moral" status. Which is totally non-sense, if we keep in mind WHY the fiat-currency (after Brettonwood) has been invented but it sounds totally reasonable to every bureaucrat: provide me the proof that you have paid the taxes or you aren't a criminal. It doesn't matter, both of those questions, a criminal could deserve being paid for something else s/he did. Some people do not pay taxes because they do not receive money from the state on which money they should pay taxes (the taxes before the taxes, the taxes on the invoice, not on the payment of the invoice). At this level of non-sense, the system collapses. Not the reality, but the Lemanh & Brother, AGAIN. Suddenly, the DEM left the wokism (I read in the newspaper so take this as an "information" not just a bit of truth) and decided that attacking in 29 Meta because Facebook spread it, it was totally fine. Isn't the first time in human history that the worst clean their facade dumping their sh*t on those who served them. And YOU -- open source and free software community -- served very well. So, well that for 20 years FOSS received a totally unchecked and unverified support. After 20 years, they are not coming back asking about doing-good (the work) but the mistakes, whatever. The mistakes YOU made while pretending doing-good. Instead, about ME, there is no way because I never spent a minute in my life pretending doing-good. People who meet me in person, usually know that I am a very nice person, and I am a memorable person even when I say something that they do not like to hear. Because the things that I write by email, I also say by persona and what keeps me alive isn't the content or the peaceful patiente of my listeners but the tone and the posture. People feel, who are against them or trying to correct them for their own good. So, they aren't here to select a winner. They are here to point the finger and say: YOU greedy b*stards are the ruin of this world because -- fundamentally served them before they changed their minds -- YOU are evil. And trust me, they are f*cking good in doing so because they tested as hard as possible against me. So, it was me and now it is your turn to win the hotspot -- boiling like a frog in a hot water pot. I presume, but I can be wrong, as every human can be wrong. And finally -- NO -- nobody currently or in the past or in the future -- was, is or will be cared about busybox -- apart from those who use it. Best regards, -- Roberto A. Foglietta +49.176.274.75.661 +39.349.33.30.697
