From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <14ec7b181003251133u3aac09f1qcee452382386ec19@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:17:30 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba41003251417x1ec6a645y171736b0fbe6a352@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: mirtchovski@gmail.com Subject: Re: [9fans] quote o' the day Topicbox-Message-UUID: f25d6792-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=3Dcoreutils.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dsrc/cat.= c;hb=3DHEAD 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 corrido= r near our office. Let's hope they learn. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:51 PM, 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 pag= e > > It's a sign of the apocalypse. =C2=A0The configuration of the 6th edition > kernel Lions presented was about 10,000 lines of code. =C2=A0This version > of cp is nearly 1/4 of that, and the function copy_internal() is over > 1000 lines long. =C2=A0I'm clearly not smart enough to function in a worl= d > where cp is that complex... > > Back to real work...again...for real this time...I promise... > BLS > > >