Interesting Function Name (line: 201)

Posted by inglor on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @02:41PM
from the dpsv.margaine.com dept.

http://dpsv.margaine.com/packages/unstable/dpkg/1.18.3/src/divertcmd.c#L-201

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by blucoat on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:10PM (#10699073)

Does ohshit stand for something else clever? I know the Android API uses "What a Terrible Failure" to serve a similar function.

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by dajohnson89 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:14PM (#10699112)

There's also ohshite() :-)

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by _lce0 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:47PM (#10699353)

haha. Looks like it's from `libdpkg`

https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/21331804/#l-244

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by vectorjohn on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:53PM (#10699420)

Haha, I laughed that there was "ohshite()", but they even have a convenient ohshitv().

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by impostervt on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:51PM (#10699393)

We've all done it. That, and added comments apologizing to whoever has to maintain that one function...

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by _kst_ on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:25PM (#10699200)

I get "Cannot call method 'slice' of undefined" when I open the link.

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:29PM (#10699234)

I was actually digging into the dpkg source code out of curiosity a few months ago and was also amused by the function name. I didn't decide it worth posting, though.

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Re:Interesting Function Name (line: 201) by andrewchambers on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:12PM (#10699563)

But this comment was?

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