From: grawity@gmail.com (Mantas Mikulėnas)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of dsw(1)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:18:01 +0300 [thread overview]
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:11 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Dave Horsfall scripsit:
>
>> Delete from Switch Register (delete file whose i-num is in CSR)
>
> There's no doubt that this is right, but
> <http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/18/a-bit-of-history> claims
> that the switch register was set to the number of files to skip over
> before dumping core. If you resumed the core dump, the next file would
> be deleted. This allowed deleting files whose names could not be typed.
This reminds me of a similar discussion thirty-three years ago:
http://article.olduse.net/125 at Auiucdcs.UUCP
http://article.olduse.net/19 at Aresearch.UUCP
http://article.olduse.net/20 at Aresearch.UUCP
...which seems to confirm the "nth file" version.
(Also, hi everyone. First post here. Possibly the only, though.)
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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 20:05 Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 20:11 ` John Cowan
2014-09-12 20:18 ` Mantas Mikulėnas [this message]
2014-09-13 3:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 20:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-09-12 22:15 ` Carl Lowenstein
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