Re: New syscall: leftpad()

2016-04-01 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am 01.04.2016 um 01:36 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > Please be more careful in your description... I'm very sorry. Will do a v2 soon. ;-) > On 03/31/16 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is >> when >> it comes to dependencies of f

Re: New syscall: leftpad()

2016-03-31 Thread Randy Dunlap
Please be more careful in your description... On 03/31/16 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when > it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1]. > A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and b

New syscall: leftpad()

2016-03-31 Thread Richard Weinberger
Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1]. A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and broke a lot of software. This raised our attention and we came to the conclusion that it is the ker