>That's their problem. Perl is extremely useful to Unix systems
>programmers and administrators. They are the target audience
>that Perl was initially written for, whom it was made famous by,
>and you will find that it continues to be very important to us.
>If you relegate us to take a back seat behind a mob of Billduhs,
>then you have betrayed your history and really pissed a lot of
>people off.
Come on Tom take it easy on us poor admins who have to live in the "Billduh"
world.
Too the point, I want the getpwent() to return as much as it can based on
what it can grok from the underlying OS. Sure its best fit is going to be
Unix. But if we start thinking with a little more of a "Posix" mindset we
can rationalize that what the OS should provide is a sane set of semantics
for common administrative tasks. Us
If I call fork I just want it to do what the Perl documentation says it
will. I don't want to care if my script is being run on a *nix box or a Vax
or a Mac etc. If my job is to read 5000 files and produce a summary file I
want to be able to write a script that can be told where the input is, where
the output is to go, and how many threads should be spun out to do the work.
I can then fork out my workers, open my sockets to coordinate the work and
get the job done.
