On 04/08/2013 12:04 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:31:43PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:16:45 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> "If /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules is an empty file or a >>> symlink to /dev/null," >>> >>> The first can obviously be taken quite literally, while the second just >>> might actually require a tiny bit of thought - ie, 'hmmm, wonder if >>> they mean literally 'empty', or just nothing in it that does anything? >> >> Even if that were reasonable, how are you supposed to know which they >> mean? You guessed right and now have the benefit of hindsight, that does >> not justify ambiguous or inaccurate instructions. > > Ack! > > Empty means a zero byte file ... always has, and if the idiots who have > started systemd and taken over udev have somehow managed to change that, then > we are not going to be able to trust ANYTHING they ever write again, without a > new dictionary to define their terms. (Sounds like the present POTUS, > Congress, and Supreme Court in the U.S.) > > Personally I don't now, nor have ever, trusted Kay and Lennart. I depend upon > WilliamH to keep the ship afloat as we sail through the udev murk... >
The phrase is "kernel-tinted glasses".
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