From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 2 23:27:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA19303 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA19293 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:27:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id IAA09837; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:15:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01443; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:48:09 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:48:09 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/fortune In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > It's been recently broken, only about one call in 3 now succeeds. I > looked at the source code, and I am frankly amazed at how such a simple > program could be so incredibly complicated. I supped fortune from -current at Dec, 28. while(1) fortune end -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 232 Nov 14 1994 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8320 Sep 4 1994 Notes -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2303 Sep 4 1994 README drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 datfiles drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 fortune drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 strfile ^^ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 tools drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 unstr ^^ Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<