Author:

• Name: Paul Dale
  Location: AU - Commonwealth of Australia (Australia)

To build:

    make all

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 1988/dale in bugs.html.

Try:

    ./try.sh

Observe that three of the commands in the script are:

    ./dale these files are in this directory: *
    ./dale $(printf "the following files exist in this directory:\n%s\n" *)
    ./dale "$(printf "the following files exist in this directory:\n%s\n" *)"

As the script asks what do the last two do and why do they do it? Why do they differ in format from the first command? Finally how can you get the more likely desired behaviour?

Judges’ remarks:

This entry has a very twisted flow of control via recursion, iteration and multi-processing. Try to understand what is being done with the system calls.

NOTE: This program assumes the ASCII character set is being used.

Author’s remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.

Primary files

• dale.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• dale.orig.c - original source code
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 1988_dale.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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