Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:16:55 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Stacy Olivas <olivas@digiflux.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD code that gives you the *shivers*? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030123141655.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <000901c2c267$119172c0$0502000a@sentinel>
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On 22-Jan-2003 Stacy Olivas wrote: > A while back I ran across something on one of the Linux lists asking what > the > scariest code in the linux kernel was. > > 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). In the kernel without question: src/sys/i386/isa/gpib.c (at least as far as ugly code goes) I think Peter broke down and cleaned it up in -current though. It's still nice and grotty in 4.x. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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