I talked with Carrie, and we're back to amicably dating. We're both free to 
bail from the relationship at any point. 

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Thinking about code rewrites pushed me to re-eval some C code I wrote a few
years back (<a href="../hacks/suedit-1.3.tar.gz">suedit</a>, which is a program
that allows non-root users to edit files and it enforces RCS use). It's a
glorified shell script, but it's quite functional; all I did was clean up the
naming scheme, and add support for users to specify their own editor via an
environment variable (which is security ok, as root privileges
have been dropped at that point).

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This mucking around with C reminded me of <a href="http://lwn.net/1999/0819/a/lt-bigmem.html">a post</a> by Linus, where
he kicks Andrea Arcangeli for being careless with his #ifdefs. ;)

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