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- cenarta, on 07/14/2008, -6/+106Oh my gosh. My business partner was the guy with the Sparc64 that tipped him off. We were having memory allocation problems in OpenBSD in a really edge case scenario and he quickly got in touch with the developers. Wow, never thought it would get reported on.
- ILoveBoobies, on 07/14/2008, -3/+62That's not a bug it's a Trilobite
- Cole2026, on 07/14/2008, -6/+62Is it just me, or are developers fixing alot of 30+ year bugs in Unix lately?
- Surferess, on 07/14/2008, -1/+54No hurry!
- orlyfactor, on 07/14/2008, -1/+50Now all my Sparc64 systems will run flawlessly! Phew!
- jjohnstn, on 07/14/2008, -4/+26Finally, I can now dump WinXp!
- Origin415, on 07/14/2008, -0/+21The bug originated in Unix, it got carried over into BSD since they used the Unix source code.
- mrsteveman1, on 07/14/2008, -2/+20You went out of your way to make that nifty no equal sign, real geeks would have just done !=
I question your geekness, we shall have a geek-off at noon tomorrow - Origin415, on 07/14/2008, -0/+14You are looking for Linux, this article is about OpenBSD, whose philosophy is completely based on doing things perfectly over doing things now.
- vexingmodstwo, on 07/14/2008, -0/+14I'm not a computer aficionado and I could clearly see the term "Unix-like" and realized that they weren't talking about Unix.
- kh99, on 07/14/2008, -2/+13I'm confident that any problems found in my software will eventually be traced to compiler or OS bugs, it just might take a while.
- cerejota, on 07/14/2008, -6/+17It is just you.
- cosmotron, on 07/14/2008, -1/+11Here is another old bug that was recently fixed: http://www.osnews.com/story/19731/The-25-Year-Old- ...
- roflbrothel, on 07/14/2008, -1/+10Holy *****! Chuck!? Is that you???
- orlyfactor, on 07/14/2008, -7/+16yes..."alot" of them.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -1/+9Since BSD went to GCC long ago, why weren't they also using Bison instead of YACC?
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -3/+9*BSD != GNU/Linux
- Raptor007, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6Hmm, based on the URL, I'd say this is a dupe.
Looks like it was originally submitted here:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Developer_fixes_33_year ... - jasz, on 07/14/2008, -1/+6Mom?
- cesclaveria, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5I'm not sure if this really affects Linux distributions, anyway, fixing things under the hood if better for everyone and fixing a bug for sparc64 is not going to do much difference on the desktop world.
- Ravatar, on 07/14/2008, -1/+6Jim Morrison?
- vexingmodstwo, on 07/14/2008, -1/+6daaaaamn... he threw down the virtual gauntlet.
- tomd123, on 07/14/2008, -2/+7No No No!!! Not like that... see your comparing an object (BSD) points to, to a pointer... unless your doing something crazy, you should fix it to say "BSD != GNU/Linux" or "*BSD != *GNU/Linux". Also, slashes are not allowed in variable names. This is what happens when you read C for Dummies, special Bangladesh edition. (No hate comments intended, just making a connection to "outsourcing".)
- Archer007, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4_2
- bar10dr, on 07/14/2008, -1/+5George?
- netzdamon, on 07/14/2008, -2/+6Bobra?
- anshuman, on 07/14/2008, -1/+5Uncle?
- spydon, on 07/14/2008, -1/+5Sister?
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -4/+8They did; it's called Wine.
- Feanor, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4HonestAbe be lying.
- 0150r, on 07/14/2008, -2/+6As the saying with programmers goes, "When it's done..."
- thailand1972, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4"Since BSD went to GCC long ago,"
Why GCC when you can get ahead with OGC - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -1/+5STFU. BSD is absolutely Unix. Just because BSD doesnt comply to some stupid inane requirements to garner the title UNIX®
I use BSD and always will refer to it as Unix. I refuse to say I use a Unix-like OS. And if you actually read the article you would see the bug got carried over from AT&T's branch of Unix into BSD. - rolf, on 07/14/2008, -5/+8You 0 Digg 1
- mllawso, on 07/14/2008, -1/+4Gary?
- wonderchemist, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Well sooner or later we'll have Mac OS X Ocelot.
- noerrorsfound, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3He made Linux, not BSD.
- ilikechaitea, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4umm...tomd, its just a joke dude....
- ryan83189, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3One guy did, I think they wrote a book about him or something.
- mentor, on 07/14/2008, -1/+4You think this would ever have been fixed in other situations?
- ScottoGato, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Welcome to digg. You now have the lamest account in the history of digg.
- Markpdotcom, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Oh come on, at least he didn't have to jump dimensions and come back in time to pick up an original unix machine to reprogram and save the future!
- n3tfury, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3and you just happened to be the third comment.
i BELIEVE you... - Origin415, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3that bug is dependent on these bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10000
But this is OT as it was a unix/bsd bug, not linux. - dtfinch, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2They went out of business 10 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobyte - kd1s, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Friend of mine once administered IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX, which version I forget. They were having trouble accessing an IBM device, I believe a CD drive of all things.
He contacted IBM and they couldn't fix it. More to the point, they refused to fix it. My friend figured out the bad code in the driver, fixed it and applied it to all his systems. He told IBM if they wanted the fix they could have it for a cool million. They never took him up on it. - musiccisum, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3Can anyone say John Titor...
- IllBeBack, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2***** man, you done been virtually served, biatch!
- jtorkbob, on 07/15/2008, -1/+3Patch or it didn't happen
- BalooUrsidae, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Don't give bad advice. Wine works fine for gaming.
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