From: Avi Kivity Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:46:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom Message-ID: <46F8E71C.1070409@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > > >> As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation >> mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it >> returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or >> built-in. >> > > Ah, I like that ;-) It is obvious when you think about it, and > it is so true but in a very twisted way... > > You mean, it is not false but in a twisted way, don't you? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.