David Wolfskill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.15 06:53:27 +0000:
> And another:
>
> dhcp-133[1] ls -l .netscape/lock
> lrwxrwxr-x 1 david wheel 13 Jun 15 06:40 .netscape/lock -> 1.0.0.127:612
>
> :-},
> david (making no claims about what is "good practice", here)
this is actually more performant than writing ascii text into a file and
checking the file by opening and parsing it. you simply do not have to
fopen() and stuff. very convenient ;-)
/k
--
> Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it.
> Geniuses remove it.
> --Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982
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