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Re: [PATCH][RFC] New 'true' program


From: Philip Rowlands
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] New 'true' program
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:02:37 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Paul Eggert wrote:

>If small size is all you want, I can do a lot better than that:
>
>$ ls -l true
>-rwxr-xr-x  1  eggert  eggert  10  2004-11-19 22:18  true
>$ ./true; echo $?
>0

Can't beat this for size:

$ ls -l true
-rwxr-xr-x  1 prowlands users 0 Nov 20 12:59 true
$ ./true; echo $?
0

(The implementation is left to the reader.  :-)


Cheers,
Phil




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