On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one
legitimately use to
increase the hate?
This reminds me of an April Fools thing I planned on doing but never
executed.
I was going to implement the next generation codebase for /bin/true --
shared library, autoconf/automake/libtool project, language
bindings for
everything under the sun. Oh, also a networking model, so you could
determine truth over a network socket. Of course, you'd have to
have an
obvious bug in the protocol so that someone could implement a DDOT
(distributed denial of truth) attack.
Well for starters, it's ridiculous to have separate codebases for /
bin/true and /bin/false when they basically do the same thing. Why
not combine the two into a single program, true-or-false, which takes
a parameter? On the other hand, if a platform already ships with
true and false, you may as well reuse them, so true-and-false should
exec those if available (as determined by autoconf).
You might also want to consider encrypting the truth, or providing
redundant channels, for those who can't handle it.
Josh
