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=-1.0 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 1B5E531940 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:39:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C894F427E6; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:39:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F095B427E5 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:38:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 9D62535EA3F; Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:38:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:38:56 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Marc Rochkind Message-ID: <20241214013856.GI11590@mcvoy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 4LCPM5GRJPLBEE5KA2HLVGKUZDNXDGMT X-Message-ID-Hash: 4LCPM5GRJPLBEE5KA2HLVGKUZDNXDGMT X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Mark Seiden , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: SCCS roach motel List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 06:11:57PM -0700, Marc Rochkind wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:10???PM Dan Cross wrote: > > > > > I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now > > think is apocryphal and never actually happened. > > > > The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file > > had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked > > out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to > > check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just > > learned to check in twice." > > > > I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that > > behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I > > mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story, > > though. > > > > - Dan C. > > > > This is completely ridiculous. No program I wrote ever had one of those bug > things. Heh. Me too, bug? What's that? BTW, this thread, Marc, has had me wandering into the BitKeeper code over and over, and while I'm done with coding, it was super pleasant to go look at that code. We didn't win but we wrote really nice C. I'm proud of that, it's an old guy thing, it's nice to look back and see we did a good job.