Bugs in the BSD sources ??

Chris Phillips chrisp at hcr.UUCP
Wed Oct 4 05:11:54 AEST 1989


In article <1989Sep30.060807.15103 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.UUCP writes:
>In article <1802 at cooper.cooper.EDU> hak at cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) writes:
>>	Are the BSD sources, archived @uunet, among other places,
>>	the sources to actual, working, tested programs?
>
>Uh, this may come as a surprise, but universities generally do not have
>quality-control departments.  Alas.  And considering some of the screwups
>that come out of places that *have* QC departments, like Sun, it should
>not be surprising that free software is sometimes worth what it costs.
>(Fortunately, it's *usually* worth more.)
>-- 
>"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu


I guess that the original question still needs an answer. Yes that bug
is in code as delivered from bsd.

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