Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Sun Feb 3 01:12:25 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb2.045119.22199 at zoo.toronto.edu> geoff at zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) writes:
>Dan Bernstein, in response to Ozan Yigit:
>> To rephrase: You don't seem to know what good programming techniques are.
>
>From pty/master.c:

I'm sure it was very hard to write.  Therefore, it should be hard to read,
and hard to maintain, thus promoting job security.

What exactly does it do?
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