#pedigree

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      • miselin
        sortie: I finally am getting around to reading the UNIX Haters Handbook
      • which, if you haven't read, you really really should
      • sortie
        Ah, I looked at it some time ago.
      • I don't recall it as being that important and being insatiable.
      • miselin
        YMMV I guess
      • it's nice to see in words the things I feel sometimes
      • sortie
        But again, I don't recall much about it. What in particular do you agree with?
      • miselin
        also helpful when working on a UNIX-like
      • sortie
        miselin: Right now I discovered my kernel ramfs directory read function never returns success. I have no idea how it works, from the looks of the code, it should seem ls would return the same directory entry infinitely.
      • miselin
        heh. ouch :)
      • sortie
        It mostly just worries me how I can't figure out how it works.
      • miselin
        understandable
      • sortie
        “A schrödinbug (named after Erwin Schrödinger and his thought experiment) is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.”
      • I fear it's one of those.
      • Ah. I see what I overlooked.