Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!hrc63!miduet!adam From: adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Collecting favorite bug stories Message-ID: <494@gec-mi-at.co.uk> Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 07:35:27 EST Article-I.D.: gec-mi-a.494 Posted: Fri Jan 16 07:35:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Jan-87 08:43:59 EST References: <3669@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> <2722@udenva.UUCP> Reply-To: adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) Distribution: world Organization: Marconi Instruments Ltd., St. Albans, Herts, UK Lines: 22 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:761 comp.lang.fortran:54 comp.lang.misc:161 comp.lang.modula2:90 In article <2722@udenva.UUCP> skajihar@udenva.UUCP ("Lord of Sith" Kajihara) writes: > >I don't know that this qualifies for what you ask, but the following comes ~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~ >from an inexperience with C and file processing. > I had a program that would read from n text files and write to an output file. >The first time that I ran the program, I exceeded the amount of disc quota I >had on the system. > The problem: in using command-line arguments to identify my files, I had >inadverdently included my output file as input. Result: an endless loop. > [] YAWN I thought the original poster wanted HUMOROUS bugs. [ Article eater food ]