Xref: utzoo comp.bugs.4bsd:1419 comp.sources.d:4116 comp.unix.wizards:18406 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ames!uhccux!bt455s39 From: bt455s39@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carmen Hardina) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.sources.d,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ?? Summary: On rare occasion, they are the same. Keywords: bsd source redistribution Message-ID: <4977@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 22:32:16 GMT References: <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> <13879@well.UUCP> <4281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: bt455s39@uhccux.UUCP (Carmen Hardina) Followup-To: comp.bugs.4bsd Distribution: na Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 27 In article <4281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens) writes: [...] > I got some kernel source for IP/ICMP's record & source route options >from this archive a while back and I found that it wouldn't even compile, >either, because of minor missing declarations and couple lines of missing >code. It was pretty obvious and quickly fixed, but it is bizarre that someone >would include compile-time errors in a distribution source. > On the other hand, it's free and very useful. It just takes away a >little confidence when the code you get doesn't compile and so you're certain >nobody's every tested exactly that version-- also certain it ISN'T the one >they really run at Berkeley. Just close. >-- > +-DLS (dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) Sometimes it *is* identical to the unpublished proprietary source. For instance, the freely redistributable version (5.3 (Berkeley) 6/29/88) of mkstr.c from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release of Berkeley UNIX (which is what UUNET post in their archives) is exactly the same as the proprietary version (5.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/85) of mkstr.c, with the expection of the SCCS info and redistribution rights. Just an observation... --Carmen -- Carmen Hardina, Assistant System Administrator INET: islenet!manapua!carmen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!islenet!manapua!carmen