Subj : Re: Beautiful hacks
To   : tenser
From : Bob Worm
Date : Wed Nov 01 2023 22:47:35

  Re: Re: Beautiful hacks
  By: tenser to Spectre on Thu Nov 02 2023 09:59:46

Hi, Tenser.

 > Steve Bourne used to keep a directory of zero-byte files that
 > were given names according to each representable 8-bit byte in
 > his account at Bell Labs.  This apparently was famous for
 > tripping up various naive scripts and tools that walked across
 > the filesystem.

 > I always thought that was a clever hack.

I'm not sure which aspect I like the best:

a) that he figured out that it would upset scripts
b) that he then left it in place just to annoy people

Bravo :)

BobW
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