On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 12:00:01PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Recipes are aimed at people who simply don't understand any of that > goobledegook. This won't help them -write correct code-. Indeed. Perhaps this writeup belongs in a different document (with a pointer from the recipes file), and the actual recipe itself should await the development of a general and robust API. Alan Stern