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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Make love
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:48:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150731234825.GF31005@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B35FEBE0-B939-4CDE-8C9F-FFE938DF6867@bsdimp.com>

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Warner Losh scripsit:

> the same people that scrubbed
> ‘you can tune a file system, but you can’t tuna fish’ from tunfs(8).

That would be some humorless git at Sun during the run-up to Solaris.
Luckily we are now protected against a recurrence by this warning in
the man page source:

.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.

And in the 64-bit world, that's a loooooooooooooooooooong time.
Someone should file a patch to restore warning and joke to illumos.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
        --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-31 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31 17:23 Norman Wilson
2015-07-31 21:05 ` Warner Losh
2015-07-31 23:48   ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-08-01  3:48     ` Larry McVoy
2015-08-01  2:42   ` scj
2015-08-02  1:35     ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-08-02  9:45     ` arnold
2015-08-10 17:51       ` scj
2015-08-01  3:20   ` Dave Horsfall
2015-08-01  3:36     ` Steve Nickolas
2015-08-01 11:19       ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-08-01 11:28         ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-08-01  3:50     ` Larry McVoy
2015-08-01  4:53       ` Steve Nickolas
2015-08-01 17:02       ` Clem cole
2015-08-01 17:04       ` Clem cole
2015-08-01  7:21     ` Warner Losh
2015-08-01 11:16       ` Ronald Natalie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-01 11:03 Norman Wilson
2015-07-31  0:16 Nemo
2015-07-30 21:11 Norman Wilson
2015-07-30 20:00 Dave Horsfall
2015-07-30 20:03 ` John Cowan
2015-07-31 16:32   ` ron
2015-07-31 16:39     ` John Cowan
2015-07-30 20:37 ` Ori Idan
2015-07-30 20:45   ` Chet Ramey
2015-07-30 20:51   ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2015-07-31 16:09     ` random832
2015-07-31 16:40       ` Warner Losh
2015-07-31 17:00         ` Ed Skinner

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