From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 22 14:52:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503AF37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739BD43E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0MMqQX0087561 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:52:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0MMqPcM087560 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:52:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:52:25 -0600 From: David Kelly To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD code that gives you the *shivers*? Message-ID: <20030122225225.GA87532@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <000901c2c267$119172c0$0502000a@sentinel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901c2c267$119172c0$0502000a@sentinel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:39:03PM +0100, Stacy Olivas wrote: > > Just out of sheer curiosity, what would people consider to be the > scariest code in the FreeBSD codebase? And why? (Please don't post > something like "everything under /usr/src/gnu" because it's > all GNU code). The code which implements the "r" and "f" options in /usr/src/bin/rm/rm.c, specifically rm_tree(). OTOH suspect you really mean "bad code", rather than code which is frightening. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message