Well yes, of course ignorance is funny. Consider the classic gag in everything from Buster Keaton, to Tom and Jerry, to Clouseau and Kato ... the whole point is that neither of them know that there's another guy around the corner, but the audience does. That's why it's funny when they both surprise each other.

In my post that you found so offensive, I was poking fun at the fact that you and the OP had gone back and forth a bunch of times without getting what the other was saying, even though it appeared clear on both sides to me.

Some people just can't be the butt of a joke. Noted.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^10: capturing output of system call inside a thread by 1nickt
in thread capturing output of system call inside a thread by that_guy

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