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From: joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
Date: 13 Aug 95 11:53:55 GMT
Organization: Schily's Hackerstuebchen Berlin, Germany
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In article <40g7s4$eut@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> smarks@Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>I checked through the SCCS history for this file and the "tune a fish" line
>doesn't appear in any version. This particular version of the file appears to
>have originated with the SVR4 distribution from AT&T around 1990. Of course,
>it does appear in the SunOS 4.x source archives and in the BSD sources. I
>don't know whether it was deliberately removed or whether the version that was
>originally picked up by AT&T didn't have it. In any case, there is no
>indication that the "humorless person" to which you refer -- if such a person
>exists -- worked at Sun.
One joke has definitely disappeared at Sun!
The BSD 4.3 source of ufs_syscalls.c includes the following lines:
/*
* A virgin directory (no blushing please).
*/
struct dirtemplate mastertemplate = {
0, 12, 1, ".",
0, DIRBLKSIZ - 12, 2, ".."
};
The equivalent in SunOS 3.5 (ufs_dir.c) simply reads:
/*
* A virgin directory.
*/
struct dirtemplate mastertemplate = {
0, 12, 1, ".",
0, DIRBLKSIZ - 12, 2, ".."
};
That's before the Sun-AT&T deal ;-)
But... there are roumors about other jokes, that had to disappear when
AT&T and Sun started working on SVr4:
In SunOS 4.0 where the new memory management concept has been introduced
there has been a kernel function named "as_hole".
The task of this function was to find a hole in a virtual address space.
I've heard that someone at AT&T insists in having the name of this
function changed to "as_gap".
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