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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Linux history...
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- References: <1992Aug26.211446.17797@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.200542.23389@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:05:42 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
-
- : erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- : >Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) wrote:
- : >: He probably knows your favourite linux hostname too, so check that
- : >: new kernel source before you start using it! :-)
- : >
- : >if ((gethostname(host, 32) == 0) && strcmp(host, "klaava"))
- : > panic("Hahaha, Lars!");
- :
- : Hah, that won't work. klaava (and kruuna; they are Finnish for heads
- : and tails, as in coins) is the machine I (and Linus himself as well!)
- : read news. They are some Sun machines and belong to the university.
-
- Damn. :)
-
- : Besides, I think you reversed the strcmp test.
-
- You're right. Well, hey it *was* early for me ... :)
-
- : Also, I think you should give Linus a bit more credit for inventiveness.
- : Like, say,
- :
- : if (strcmp(host, "haven") == 0)
- : randomly_corrupt_one_byte_in_buffer_cache();
- :
- : Don't insult him with mere panics. :-)
-
- That would probably just make him mad. :)
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
-