From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 12:17:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2M+kTnQJ0+q0EF-RmURTA8aq4R-2w98Ac3Cx9pB_Dc4AA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170511142142.GA4341@mcvoy.com>
Ted certainly did that a lot.
(It drove me nuts. I hated it and argued a bit about it.) One of the
reasons I hated C when I first learned it.
Clem
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:07:29AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c
>
> Is this style of declarations common?
>
> char
> *bbit,
> *abbit,
> *state,
> *lc,
> pathname[200],
> *pp,
> *name,
> sflag,
> nflag,
> yflag,
> ;
>
> unsigned
> dsize,
> fmin,
> fmax
> ;
>
> I've not seen that before, if it's fairly unique then we might be able to
> figure out who wrote this stuff (or did I miss that and we know already?)
>
> --lm
>
>
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2017-05-11 14:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-11 14:21 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 16:17 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2017-05-11 17:11 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-11 21:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 22:06 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 6:24 ` Hellwig Geisse
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2017-05-12 23:25 ` Hellwig Geisse
2017-05-11 16:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 16:52 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-11 17:12 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 20:37 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 22:30 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 23:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 23:48 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-12 0:21 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 2:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 0:16 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 1:41 ` Wesley Parish
2017-05-12 1:05 ` Toby Thain
2017-05-12 8:17 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-12 13:56 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-12 14:22 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-12 14:30 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 15:11 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-12 15:52 ` Chet Ramey
2017-05-12 16:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 8:15 ` Harald Arnesen
2017-05-14 4:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-05-14 17:40 ` Clem Cole
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2017-05-19 14:31 ` David
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2017-05-16 13:20 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-16 13:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-14 21:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 1:25 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 0:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 0:51 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 1:17 ` Chris Torek
2017-05-13 15:25 ` Steve Simon
2017-05-13 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-13 17:19 ` William Pechter
2017-05-14 12:55 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-05-14 22:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 1:24 ` Nemo
2017-05-15 18:00 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-16 22:33 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-16 23:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-16 23:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 23:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-12 23:30 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-12 23:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-12 23:52 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 0:48 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:22 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-13 0:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 18:43 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-12 18:56 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-12 19:43 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 20:06 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 20:40 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-05-12 21:29 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 21:29 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-12 15:12 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-12 15:17 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 15:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 15:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 17:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-11 21:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-10 14:08 Diomidis Spinellis
2017-05-10 14:38 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-05-10 23:09 ` Erik Berls
2017-05-11 12:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-05-11 0:49 ` Clem Cole
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