Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!uplog.se!lynx!dainis From: dainis@ZYX.SE (Dainis Millers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Humor in HP-UX! Message-ID: <1965@lynx.zyx.SE> Date: 5 Nov 90 12:37:26 GMT References: Sender: usenet@zyx.SE Followup-To: comp.sys.hp Organization: ZYX Sweden AB, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 22 In-reply-to: tml@tik.vtt.fi's message of 2 Nov 90 21:32:45 GMT In article tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: > When running strings(1) on xdb (the screen-oriented debugger on > HP-UX), I found the following: > > Hmmm, it seems to be in the hardware. > Things look good, but you may have a halting problem. [ a couple dozen more along the same line...] > Got a dime? In cdb(1), which evidently shares code with xdb, there is a command 'F' (yes, it's documented in the man page!) that can supposedly be used to "find and fix a bug". Try it. Does anybody know whether it is possible to invoke this command in xdb as well, or is this one other example of dead code in system software? (If so, it is hardly the first time something like that happens. Sometimes I suspect a conspiracy between manufacturers of hard disks and software vendors :-) -- Dainis Millers ZYX Sweden AB, Styrmansgatan 6/IV S-114 54 Stockholm, Sweden