[TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Mar 16 09:20:57 AEST 2020


On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Rob Pike wrote:

> Ha! Someone on hacker news, that fount of profundity, posted the C code 
> for typo and said that it would be a simple matter to update to modern 
> Unix.

[ And it isn't...]

Got a pointer for it?  Wherever it is, it's well hidden...  I'd like to 
see some of that ancient C code; for example, my favourite is:

     int abort 4;
     ...
 	abort();

Yes, really :-)

-- Dave


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