linux-kernel - Re: The vi editor causes brain damage

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Date:	Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:14:14 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Marc Perkel <mperkel@...oo.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The vi editor causes brain damage

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:20:34 PDT, Marc Perkel said:
> Let me give you and example of the difference between
> Linux open source world brain damaged thinking and
> what it's like out here in the real world.
> 
> Go to a directory with 10k files and type:
> 
> rm *
> 
> What do you get?
> 
> /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Given that you don't even understand that this message is issued by the
*shell* and not /bin/rm, and *why* it issues that sort of error message
when an argument string expands to be bigger than MAX_ARGV, and the fact
that there are extant patches to increase that to essentially any reasonable
size, why should we listen to you when you proclaim that you have any sort
of enlightenment about systems design?

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