Re: verifying system binaries, a la R*dh*t

[Mark Delany]

>good job.  But Russ was afraid to mention the author of qmail's name
>because he didn't want to alienate anyone.

[snip]

>I am also a firm supporter of qmail.  It's a great program and works
>very well in so many different ways.  I wouldn't want to disparage Dan's
>programming abilities--they're obviously top notch--but people skills
>leave a lot to be desired.

Thank god* none of you have met the person who wrote the 'ls' command for 
Unix. Man was he a human pig of monstrous proportions**. If any of you knew 
what he was like on the "people skills" front, I'll bet that you'd all use 
"echo *" in preference to "ls".


Regards.

* For those paying attention, should that be "Thank God .... unix" :>

** Yes, it's an ambit proposition. "ls" was probably authored by Richie or 
Kernighan which by my very limited experience both appear to be genuinely 
nice people on many fronts.