[TUHS] SCCS roach motel

[Marc Rochkind]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now
> think is apocryphal and never actually happened.
>
> The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file
> had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked
> out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to
> check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just
> learned to check in twice."
>
> I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that
> behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I
> mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story,
> though.
>
>         - Dan C.
>

This is completely ridiculous. No program I wrote ever had one of those bug
things.

Marc
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