From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2212 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2022 21:27:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Sep 2022 21:27:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E5441749; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:27:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pasta.tip.net.au (pasta.tip.net.au [203.10.76.2]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7E7341747 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:27:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [203.7.122.114]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.tip.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4MNFhl47sCz8t3n; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:27:35 +1000 (AEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.21\)) From: Steve Jenkin In-Reply-To: <20220907145631.GN31856@mcvoy.com> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:27:26 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8DDF5A51-AABF-41AF-993C-4D087903BDC9@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20220907145631.GN31856@mcvoy.com> To: TUHS X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.21) Message-ID-Hash: VTRP2JKTETREWSXELJ3CV7JKYLM7MKUV X-Message-ID-Hash: VTRP2JKTETREWSXELJ3CV7JKYLM7MKUV X-MailFrom: sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au 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 X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software. List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Would your folk ship code with a list of outstanding bug reports? I don=E2=80=99t think Ken & Dennis did that. I know that UNSW put together a =E2=80=9Call known faults fixed=E2=80=9D = tape, which says there were defects uncovered in use,=20 but not known when shipped. > On 8 Sep 2022, at 00:56, Larry McVoy wrote: >=20 > I'd be willing to say that you could find a bug very quickly in our > code but to claim that it is bug free is a bridge too far for me. -- Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design=20 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin