25 year old bug bites BSD

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:58 AM
Subject: 25 year old bug bites BSD


> Ken: assuming you actually build for BSD (ISTR you don't anymore),
> there's a really old bug in the *dir routines detailed here:
> 
> http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/05/11/1339228.shtml and
> http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir
> 
> which you either worked around (and your workaround will break when
> they fix it) or you didn't (and your code will stop being broken when
> they fix it); it goes back to 4.2 (at least) and appears in OS/X and
> lots of other derivatives using Kirk McCusick's routines in their libc.

The way I read it there are two other possibilities equally as likely:

3) He worked around it by not using that function and so the fix won't affect him at all.
4) He naturally wasn't using that function in the first place and so he's neither broken now, nor after the fix.

Interesting item. Not so interesting slashdot discussion for the most part though. IE: Since this bug existed, that proves that the whole concept of open source was invalid all along. -headsmack-

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