From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C166721316 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CC1435E9; Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:48:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from anduin.eldar.org (anduin.eldar.org [IPv6:2001:470:c620:0:280:c8ff:fef8:70bc]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A36F42AA7 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:48:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from anduin.eldar.org (IDENT:brad@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduin.eldar.org (8.16.1/8.13.8) with ESMTPS id 4356mbCg027619 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:48:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from brad@localhost) by anduin.eldar.org (8.16.1/8.13.8/Submit) id 4356mbvt028720; Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:48:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Spencer To: Marcus Clark In-Reply-To: (message from Marcus Clark on Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:16:31 +0000) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:48:37 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (anduin.eldar.org [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:48:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID-Hash: I6ZCCWT6RILELIGDUPNVIKDECAIXXOJ6 X-Message-ID-Hash: I6ZCCWT6RILELIGDUPNVIKDECAIXXOJ6 X-MailFrom: brad@anduin.eldar.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: TUHS@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Marcus Clark writes: > Wikipedia has a brief page on cscope, which has a link to > https://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html > written by Harold Bamford, in which he talks about the > early days of cscope at Bell Labs and its inventor Joe Steffan. > > I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using > cscope on their projects or anything about its development. > > -Marcus. A long time ago on the project I was on when I was at AT&T / Lucent, the department I was in had a wrapper shell script around cscope. We used this wrapper to query the source of the product that we worked on. The source, at the time, was huge and cscope was about the only thing around that let you search the source with the least amount of pain. The wrapper script simply invoked cscope in a safe way that kept it from accidently re-indexing the source code when the developer didn't mean to do that. We did re-indexes in a cron job every once in a while. Since the source to cscope is available now, it has made it into pkgsrc and I use it on the NetBSD source tree all of the time. -- Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org