Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:14:00 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX Humour Message-ID: <20030917201400.GE72628@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <uf1xufffoo.xuf@mail.comcast.net> References: <200309171727.h8HHRWZv018888@cwsys.cwsent.com> <uf1xufffoo.xuf@mail.comcast.net>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:11:35AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> writes: > > > jaws # ./lastlog.c > > ./lastlog.c: /TT_DB: is a directory > > ./lastlog.c: old_versions/: is a directory > > We can laugh at an ignorant "expert", but should we not also laugh at > an OS and/or shell that is just as ignorant? Or cry? Well, I, for one, hardly think it would be worth it to attempt to make the shell smart enough to detect this kind of "ignorant expert" error. Of course, we could simply change the shell so that it would only attempt to execute files that have a well-defined set of file name extensions -- like some other popular OSes do. Indeed, we could even ignore the execute permission bit if we did that! :-) Bob -- Bob Willcox "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" bob@immure.com -- Steven Wright Austin, TX
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