A new utility to augment yum - machine cloner

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed Jan 10 14:12:34 UTC 2007


+1.

> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:31, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>> I would consider this a show stopper. system() calls are bad, no matter
>> what the programming language. It's too easy to get things wrong.
>>
>> Especially when there is a native binding.
>
> Well, not everything can be a library and eventually someting will have to
> be
> called via system or getoutputby or things like that.  A blanket statement
> of 'nothing should ever use system' is just wrong IMHO
>
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