Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Q: lseek returns long or int? (BSD 4 Message-ID: <4381@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 17:50:12 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4381 Posted: Fri Sep 28 17:50:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 17:50:12 EDT References: <119@cybvax0.UUCP>, <13700066@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 31 > >>This is yet another piece of gratuitous brain-damage brought to you by > >>the morons at Berkeley... > > If the above was intended to be a joke, then said so. If it was what > the author considered the Berkeley programmers were, it was a poor > judgement. I wish it was a joke. It's not. > An institute without mega-bucks paid programmers, can provide > such a wide spread system, is very amazing. If we bought 4.2BSD from a commercial outfit, with mega-bucks paid programmers, we'd return it with an angry demand for a full refund plus an apology. Some of the bugs in 4.2 are shameful, to put it mildly. The folks here who did most of our 4.1->4.2 conversion work have been heard to say "if we had to do it all over again, we wouldn't". I agree it's amazing that an institute without mega-bucks paid programmers could introduce so many bugs into so much software that used to work. > "Ask not what your Unix can do for you;" > "Ask what you can do for your Unix!" You are in a large rectangular room. There is a 4.2BSD tape lying on the floor. > get Unix I see no Unix here. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry