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My favorite piece of man trivia is from the source of the tunefs BSD man page, which contains: .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from
by beej71 7mo ago
My favorite piece of man trivia is from the source of the tunefs BSD man page, which contains:
.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.
.Pp
You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8#L250 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sbin/tunefs...
- gmassman 7mo agoI guess the joke is you can scale a file system or a fish, but can only tune a file system?
- fragmede 7mo agoTuna is a type of fish so the joke is that they sound the same.
- SoftTalker 7mo agoThere was also the record You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish by REO Speedwagon, I had assumed that's what the tunefs man page was referencing as that was a best-selling record at around the time Unix was being developed.
- throwanem 7mo agoYes. It had been a popular joke in the US, I believe about a generation before. (Probably the joke came in around the same time as canned tuna.)
- pwdisswordfishy 7mo agoYou can tune a fish, it's that the command for that is fish_config instead.