Re: [dwm] problem with dmenu3.1

On 5/23/07, Jukka Salmi <j+dwm_AT_2007.salmi.ch> wrote:
>
> Sander van Dijk --> dwm (2007-05-23 23:03:10 +0200):
> > On 5/23/07, Marek Bernat <marek.bernat_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On the other hand kill, echo and other programs like this should of
> course
> >> be outside the shell.
> >
> > Yes, [...]
>
> ...but on a system where you suddenly notice that the process table
> is full and you thus can't fork new processes anymore I bet even you
> will be quite happy if you have a kill(1) built into your still running
> shell... ;-)

Good point. I believe most of the built-ins are there because of reasons
like this.
Sanity vs. purity. Pragmatism vs. ideology :-)
Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 00:51:02 UTC