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In the original BSD man pages, the "Bugs" section for "tunefs" had the famous joke "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." but according to "Ex
by seanhunter 2y ago
In the original BSD man pages, the "Bugs" section for "tunefs" had the famous joke "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." but according to "Expert C Programming"[1],
the source code for this manpage had a comment next to the joke saying
> Take this out and a UNIX Demon will dog your steps from now
> until the time_t's wrap around.
Obviously back in the 70s when that was written 2038 seemed unimaginably far in the future.
[1] https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf