• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Over at invisible-island.net:

    Part of why xterm’s internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don’t hold this against Mark; it isn’t his fault.

    And startx:

    # This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive interface than xinit.
    # …
    # Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.
    
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      8 hours ago

      Found deep in the Linux networking code years ago: // this code is too ugly to live, but I don’t have time right now