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From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
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: 8 Sep 1995 23:32:31 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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My favorite SunOS comment is deep in the bowels of /sys/os/subr_prf.c:
/* THIS CODE IS VAX DEPENDENT IN HANDLING %l? AND %c */
Uh, uh-oh =)
Sun seems to be really, really good at changing code and neglecting the
comments, especially in the kernel.
Bill