On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:17:22PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Thursday 05 July 2012 11:03:32 Doug Barton wrote: > > > If the new feature gets created, and you don't want to use it, turn it > > > off. No problem. > > > > No. I think this is entirely the wrong way round. If the new feature is > > created and you want it, turn it on. Don't make me turn off something I > > didn't want in the first place. [...] > > This feature is targeted at new users, for whom it is harder to turn on > something they probably don't even know about, than to skilled users to > turn it off. > > If this feature is going to prints quite a few extra lines, let's just > add one more line saying: > > To disable this message run: echo set 31337mode >> ~/.tcshrc >
LD_PRELOAD= ... would be more extensible as a library could react to a larger set of already built binaries without modification of the upstream code. And continue to work in the background while the shell drops back to a prompt and does not interupt the user. -- - (2^(N-1))
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