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Re: [PATCH - ping] Don't unlink /dev/null on darwin
On 2005-02-15, at 01:33, Paul Brook wrote:
However in the real world most software has bugs. Things like not
running gcc
as root help to mitigate them. Remember this thread started because
gcc was
accidentally deleting /dev/null on darwin.
No in the real world out there I have been ding development on systems
for years as
root just because the potential of time lost on a screw-up by doing
something
unintentional was smaller then the time I would have to waste on working
the presumably ruled "save way". A perfectly reasonable thing to do
since most
of software out there isn't that bad as you pose it. And I think it is
perfectly
reasonable to expect the situation not to suddenly change.