Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <W~%&'N at uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb at fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
> > >    (void) chdir("..");
> > This is guaranteed to work.
> Really.  Tell me about it.

I started the article with a blanket disclaimer saying that the code
still had to handle hard I/O errors. Do I need to say ``other than
the fatal errors mentioned above'' in every sentence so that you don't
quote me out of context? Sheesh.

---Dan
Stupidity, n.: An overwhelming desire to rewrite one-line shell scripts
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