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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago

Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.

~I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.~

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 36 points 2 weeks ago

you mispelled super interesting

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

You misspelled misspell 🤪

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

#define AUTHORS proper_name ("Jim Meyering")

The true author, so to speak.

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Most changes are updating the copyright year.
After that, it's pretty much (or maybe completely, I haven't checked exhaustively) for the --help and --version flags, not for the core part of exiting with a certain exit code.

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