On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:58:48AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
This was... a bit of a nightmare. It took way too long and went down a bunch of blind alleys. I'm not sure how much I like the final result: it's pleasingly terse in some cases, but in others it feels dangerously subtle, requiring a pretty careful understanding of the sequencing rules of C's &&, || and , operators.
That said, while I was at many points ready to pack it in and hack my around the problems limiting the parsing for destination remapping, I couldn't really think of feasible way to do that either. So, here we are.
Reposting again, because I realised 12/13 was missing matching manpage updates. -- David Gibson (he or they) | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you, not the other way | around. http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson