[TUHS] Code bloat

Jacob Goense dugo at xs4all.nl
Fri Feb 10 00:03:34 AEST 2017


On 2017-02-08 17:25, Tony Finch wrote:
> The previous CVS repo from the 386BSD+patchkit days was hidden away
> because of old copyright worries, though some time after 2000 it became
> available to most committers. (I have a copy in my home directory on
> freefall.freebsd.org which I stashed away in 2007 because at that time 
> I
> think there still wasn't a conveniently accessible copy.)

Does that have eg. sys/kern/tty.c in it? Or is also missing piles of 
files?

> It looks like after the uplift to SVN the two repositories were 
> combined,
> so you can now see the 386BSD import at
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/f131f027b47937d651804c243cde86ec0bf87e67

Not without being butchered first. A lot of essential source files are 
missing
from the start until they magically appear in the 4.4BSD-Lite upload.

I'll take another look if I can make sense of how Lite was folded in.




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