FS_MAGIC trivium

Barry Shein bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu at bu-it.bu.edu
Mon Jan 25 10:59:42 AEST 1988


This is not important, but I was looking at some 4.3/4.2 fs.h files
in preparation for a class lecture and noticed that they all had:

#define FS_MAGIC	0x011954

(Sun3.4, Umax3.1, BSD4.3.)

The only guess as to why that number was chosen is that in decimal it
is 1.25.84 so I assume it's a date. CG_MAGIC decodes to 9.2.85 so a
pattern does emerge but I was just wondering if it's my paranoid mind.

Like I said, nothing earth-shattering tonight. Can anyone confirm
this?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University



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