[colug-432] my shell is better^H^H^H^H^H^Hdifferent than yours: NSFW (but not for the reason you might think)

[Chris Anderson]

What exactly is wrong with just using Ctr-C to cancel this? Seems to work
for me. I don't like the idea of a shell restricting my options to keep me
from doing something dumb. That's what my brain is there for...

I guess it is a matter of opinion, but I like Nanny shells about as much as
I like Nanny states...

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the AST (AT&T Software Technology) user's mailing list, Glen Fowler
> recently posted this snippet:
>
> > ... the seemingly good idea of "no limits" is not always a good idea
> > proof of concept: try this with bash on a system that you can reboot
> with a physical button:
> >
> >        bash -c 'read line < /dev/zero'
> >
>
> The context was why doesn't ksh let you read an arbitrarily long line of
> text with the built-in "read" command (and why that limitation is on
> purpose, but unfortunately undocumented).
>
>
> Jeff
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