2011/4/5 <smi...@zenzebra.mv.com>: > I think string parsing and numeric comparisons are reasonable features > to include in almost any programming language. I think having > primitives for line-oriented input and line-oriented output are more > than appropriate for a line-oriented language like rc(1). As it stands, > rc(1) can have it's cake, but it can't eat it without a fork(2).
As it was stated earlier, a fork(2) is rather cheap here, so what's your concern then? Maybe it's time to forget the lectures about expensive forks and just cary on? I bet you won't even notice much changes in your stats -c graph.
