POSIX close(2) is broken

Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by cperciva on Saturday December 17, 2011 @03:36AM (#3363825)

Also, there's a bug in HN: When I submitted this under the title "POSIX close(2) is broken" it converted "POSIX" to "Posix" (presumably because PG doesn't like shouting titles), but I was able to edit it back to reading "POSIX".

In this case "POSIX" is correct, not "Posix", of course; but if HN is going to mangle titles it ought to at least do so consistently.

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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by tspiteri on Saturday December 17, 2011 @12:36PM (#3364628)

There is no need to mangle titles consistently. The behaviour you describe is a good solution: remove shouting by default, and in the case that it is not really shouting (as in POSIX), the submitter can always fix it by editing it back.

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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by cmelbye on Saturday December 17, 2011 @03:56AM (#3363848)

It'd be nice if it actually knew that "POSIX", "iPhone/iPad/iPod", etc should be left alone.

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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by fauigerzigerk on Saturday December 17, 2011 @04:23AM (#3363882)

That's odd. I see lots of titles on the front page right now that include the word SOPA.

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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by cperciva on Saturday December 17, 2011 @04:49AM (#3363921)

Maybe it's triggered by having 5 or more consecutive upper-case characters? I have no idea.

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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by 46Bit on Saturday December 17, 2011 @06:40AM (#3364054)

Or just whitelisted.

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