Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:33:24 +0200


>> Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat.

AS> well, its a 395 byte shell script that does the same thing as exit 1,
AS> but it's cute :) Surely you want to know the version of your lies... :)

It caught me as a surprise to see that true and false are such a bloats.
And even such a simple program as false has a bug: try
false --help --version

Not that this is a serious bug ;)

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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