On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:41, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
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I thought it was rather clever.
Depends on the situation.
This is a list for users of openSUSE Linux or of other Novell SuSE Linux releases. At the very least, Linux is a reasonable assumption for answers given here, and all current Linux systems have a proc file system.
What is the problem of looking beyond one's own nose?
Who said there's a problem? You're the one finding problems.
Discussions about topics like this are technical, much more interesting and relevant than at least 80% of all the other emails on this list. Your IMO short-sighted comment is causing a lot of trouble in the life of many programmers/system administrators.
If you're a programmer or a system administrator, then you need to handle your own diligence w.r.t. portability (among many other issues) and if you blindly incorporate offered solutions without understanding them, then you've got bigger problems than one non-Unix-portable technique.
I didn't complain about Anders' solution, I was just interested in assets and drawbacks of the different proposals. What's wrong with that? If you don't want to contribute something useful to this discussion or if you are not interested, just ignore this thread.
Obviously I am interested and I did contribute--certainly more than you did. I explained how the technique worked when Kai remarked "No clue what all that means..."
Thank you.
Cheers, Th.
Ah, the hypocritical "Cheers" salutation with an added snide "thank you." A bonus! Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org