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Poettering: The Biggest MythsPoettering: The Biggest MythsPosted Jan 30, 2013 0:48 UTC (Wed) by malor (subscriber, #2973)In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by nix Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths (Oddly, one of the most often broken components is sed. sed! How hard is it to write a working sed, I ask you...) Heh, I bet most of the broken implementations started out with that exact thinking..."how hard could this be?"
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Poettering: The Biggest Myths Posted Jan 30, 2013 16:30 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Most of it seemed to be classic Unix thinking, "we can just use a fixed N-character buffer here, nobody will want more than X of these". So you get fun like seds that coredump if you use more than 512 characters in an s// expression's regexp part, and that sort of thing. A crashing sed tends to annoy configure scripts...
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