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MIT and Berkeley did release patches at one point - not to fix any "real" problems - but since we were decompiling the VAX version, "missing an & in a bzero cal
by eichin 3y ago
MIT and Berkeley did release patches at one point - not to fix any "real" problems - but since we were decompiling the VAX version, "missing an & in a bzero call" is really obvious from the machine code, since it just tries to pass the individual struct fields as arguments, and a call with 15+ arguments stands out - and we thought it was a great way to troll the one person [at that point] who did have the source code :-) The announcement was phrased something like "In our grand tradition of fixing other people's code..."