On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 05:31:43PM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:48:32PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > >> On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > >> > >>> Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> writes: > >>> > >>>> I offer you this software that I've only just written. I don't > >>>> think that > >>>> it's that hateful: > > > >>>> [likely won't be usefully portable to any OS that forbids deleting > >>>> open files, and keeps the files corresponding files open.] > >>> Or when invoked via $PATH rather than with an explicit path. > >> Or via symbolic link. > > > > Oh right. So I should use autoconf to detect things like readlink, > > ---------------------------+^ Your problem right there. > > > /proc/self/exe and the like, and hence make it find itself better, and thus > > make it less hateful? :-)
-------------------------+^ There was a reason for this. autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need? Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one legitimately use to increase the hate? Nicholas Clark
