From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 21 17:29: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C4B37B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA67892; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:27:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? References: <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Jun 2001 02:27:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 j mckitrick writes: > In everyone's opinion, what is the most complex code in the BSD codebase? > Not including asm (unless there is an especialy exemplary example of > obfuscated code, but it seems compilers are better at that ;-) what code is > most likely to turn a newbie's brain to tapioca? Most likely NFS, though it's not as bad as it used to be. The VFS system is probably a close second (namei() anyone?). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message