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Re: libstdc++ configure time

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:42AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I've been wondering why sh thinks it has to make hard links to those
> files.  I see why here documents get turned into temporary files, but
> not why the hard links.

I'm guessing that it wants one hard link per live shell,
as a kind of reference counting.  Dunno past that...

> Are we likely to run into line length limits if we do more with echo?

Possibly.  I'm gonna try some stuff with AIX and Solaris
and see what breaks with just large echos.


r~
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