Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 17:39 on 10 Dec 2006
Timothy Knox wrote:
>>
>>Sometimes there is /usr/bin/env but not /bin/env. Turtles all the
>>way down.
> 
> 
> Not just sometimes. On the FreeBSD box I happen to do my email on, it's
> /usr/bin/env. People who only deal with a few (or one) flavour of Unix
> think portability is simple (just do it the way (my) Unix does it). I work
> in Linux (RHEL4 clone), Solaris (9, 10), and Cygwin/Windows. *sigh* Oh, and
> I forgot FreeBSD. And Mac OS X.
> 
> "Consistency? Hah! Simplicity? Hah! A Jedi craves not these things!"
> 
> Pfui!
> 

I see a start-up: development, maintainance and distribution of 
whereisenvdamnit. Usage example: #!/bin/whereisenvdamnit env tcsh. The key 
technology is a network of professional killers hunting down losers who place 
whereisenv is /usr/bin/, /loser/bin and the like.

We could make a fortune!

I wonder if those systems where you can't have long #! lines are still around 
though. That could jeopardize the success of the enterprise.

There's stuff above here

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