Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, February 11, 2008 5:40 pm, Dave Hayes wrote:
> > One can also argue that the mechanism is broken becuase it doesn't
> > dynamically allocate enough memory to handle the result of an argument
> > expansion in these days where 64KB is not a lot of memory.
>
> We have a solution (file limit) that doesn't address the problem (rm just
> doesn't work sometimes).

And 'sometimes' is getting far more prevalent with each passing month of 
storage / use advances.

:-(

> Wasn't one of the slogans for DragonFly "Dragging BSD Unix, kicking and
> screaming, into the 21st century"?

I'd settle for the last decade of the 20th century... but never mind...

;-)

Bill