Re: [PATCH] Revert Abort joke removal.

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On May  7, 2018, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> The joke is about abort, the function.

> If what you say is true, we should be able to apply it to other
> functions.  memcmp() for example:

>   @strong{Future Change Warning:} Proposed Federal censorship
>   regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the
>   possibility of calling this function.  We would be required to say
>   that this is not an acceptable way of comparing data.

> Is it still funny?

Yeah, I found it hilarious, but probably not for the reasons you meant.

For the analogy to be valid, and for your attempt at humor to work,
you'd have to find actual censorship legislation that related with the
function name in some surprising way.

That might have worked with crypt(), but it wouldn't be that funny
because the relationship with the function name would not be surprising.


@strong{Past Change Warning:} Patches to glibc have remove()d any
traces of memory about GNU's standing against censorship.
Unfortunately, you'll never read() about it, since even the memory
holding this warning is now free()d.


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