Bugs in the BSD sources ??

[Carmen Hardina]

In article <4281 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> dls at 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 at 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Sometimes it *is* identical to the unpublished proprietary source.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

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