Shell pipes and in-place insanity

Post by dredmorbius » Sun, Jun 29, 2014, 10:12 PM UTC

fakedrake wrote: post #11

dredmorbius wrote: post #10

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The body text is approximately legible size, but low contrast. The code examples are all but unreadable. http://i.imgur.com/ogS9yat.png Here's a quick improvement for legibility. I'm not claiming a thing of beauty. http://i.imgur.com/mW880fB.png My general style guidelines are included here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996064#up_6998399

I see your point about the larger fonts but I have used the sunburn theme for a while in my editor (not anymore thought in favor of slightly customized naquadah[1] ) and I feel quite a bit more comfortable reading code in familiar coloring. I chose this color scheme because sunburn dark is quite popular. [1] http://rvfblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/using-naquadah-theme...

Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

simoncion wrote: post #13

dredmorbius wrote: post #12

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I still find it very difficult to read. Even expanding the font size isn't sufficient.

That's a pity. Perhaps your color vision is now at the point where you should consider loading an accessibility stylesheet into your browser. I don't look forward to the day when I am required to do this, but I do know that it will inevitably arrive.

Post by mtdewcmu » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

fakedrake wrote: post #7

mtdewcmu wrote: post #3

That was a contrived example. The shell sets up the pipe and file redirections for each process in the pipeline, then lets them go. It has no control over when the child processes read or write. It could be a race condition, but it's written in such a way that it appears that the file will get truncated before it can be read virtually 100% of the time.

You are right I should have clarify that. thank you