jwz on Nostr: It's the Twenty-First God Damned Century and I just fixed a bug, lurking in wait for ...
It's the Twenty-First God Damned Century and I just fixed a bug, lurking in wait for decades probably, that was: "oh yeah, sometimes that fgets will fail with EINTR if the other process exited too fast and you won the SIGCHLD lottery."
Fifty-five years of the Unix Footgun reigning undefeated.
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