From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: mirtchovski@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [9fans] quote o' the day
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:17:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba41003251417x1ec6a645y171736b0fbe6a352@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <badd51f0aec9483d9cdf7ac72b81dcbd@bellsouth.net>
As a example for our students we use
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD
versus
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cat.c
In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor
near our office. Let's hope they learn.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:51 PM, <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> in similar vein, there's this handful guide on how to make your life
>> really hard in 11 easy steps:
>>
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html
>>
>> make sure you check out the final copy.c linked at the bottom of the page
>
> It's a sign of the apocalypse. The configuration of the 6th edition
> kernel Lions presented was about 10,000 lines of code. This version
> of cp is nearly 1/4 of that, and the function copy_internal() is over
> 1000 lines long. I'm clearly not smart enough to function in a world
> where cp is that complex...
>
> Back to real work...again...for real this time...I promise...
> BLS
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 14:08 erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 15:04 ` maht
2010-03-25 16:56 ` ron minnich
2010-03-25 17:11 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-25 17:15 ` maht
2010-03-25 17:26 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-25 17:33 ` Robert Raschke
2010-03-25 17:42 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-25 17:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 17:31 ` blstuart
2010-03-25 16:44 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 18:31 ` blstuart
2010-03-25 18:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-25 18:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 18:51 ` blstuart
2010-03-25 21:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2010-03-25 20:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 21:58 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-25 21:21 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 22:37 ` Justin Jackson
2010-03-25 22:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 22:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 0:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 2:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 6:43 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-26 13:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-28 23:22 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-26 0:36 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-26 9:19 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-28 23:05 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <989B4954D6C952C13793229D@192.168.1.2>
2010-03-28 23:31 ` hiro
2010-03-28 23:41 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-28 23:51 ` hiro
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