Re: [dev] cat -v

2022-01-31 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Greg Minshall wrote: > i think it was a Rob Pike paper, maybe Usenix, probably in the 1990s. > the idea, iirc, is that you can always pipe the output of cat(1) into > od(1), or into any other program you wanted, so keep cat simple. good > paper (but, sometimes i do `cat -v`). By the way, here i

Re: [dev] requirements of build systems

2022-01-31 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 22/01/31 12:10, Petros Pateros wrote: > What would you expect from a build system? Should it trust mtime? > Is it responsible for verifing the file's contents for actual changes? > More generally, what are the key features that make a build system useful? apenwarr/redo is the implementation of