From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:52 +0200 Message-ID: <46F8E71C.1070409@qumranet.com> References: <853ax5mb1j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85myvdktb3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7vhcllc9bz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <85ps08k2fj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86bqbsta3g.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <7vodfr8wts.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <85hcljgtlr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Kastrup , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 12:38:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ia7oO-0002vY-A6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:38:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751755AbXIYKid (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751815AbXIYKid (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:38:33 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:38716 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751755AbXIYKid (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:38:33 -0400 Received: from firebolt.argo.co.il (unknown [10.64.7.6]) by il.qumranet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1002325028F; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:38:40 +0200 (IST) Received: from firebolt.argo.co.il (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by firebolt.argo.co.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995AEC01F1; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:52 +0200 (IST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) In-Reply-To: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (firebolt.argo.co.il [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:52 +0200 (IST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > > >> As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation >> mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it >> returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or >> built-in. >> > > Ah, I like that ;-) It is obvious when you think about it, and > it is so true but in a very twisted way... > > You mean, it is not false but in a twisted way, don't you? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.