Hi, Bob.

BL> make stat() work you have to explicity put

BL>     timezone = 0;
BL>     daylight = 0;

BL>   and then ctime() won't work!

BL>   I love C. It's such a great language... and so portable, too.

Exactly!

BL>  PE> (Posix was created by dickheads - who else would make fork()
BL>  PE> part of the standard when hardly anyone can do one of them, and
BL>  PE> most people really are just trying to do an spawn() when they
BL>  PE> use fork() (because they follow it with an exec())).

BL>   You used one too many brackets.

He used no brackets and exactly the right number of parentheses.

Regards, f'IM.

 * * Still sliding down the razor blade of life
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