Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!seismo!munnari!moncskermit!basser!kvm From: kvm@basser.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: UNIX clone with SOURCE CODE available now Message-ID: <855@basser.oz> Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 20:18:33 EST Article-I.D.: basser.855 Posted: Fri Jan 16 20:18:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 23:57:49 EST References: <1024@botter.cs.vu.nl> <5840001@hpvcla.HP.COM> <1503@lsuc.UUCP> <16@ritcv.UUCP> Reply-To: kvm@basser.oz (Karlos Vladimir Mauvtaque) Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 18 In article <16@ritcv.UUCP> sxc8765@ritcv.UUCP writes: >>If your software worked, you would only have seen the cross-posted >>article once. [...] > >This is not always true, I'm running under UNIX BSD4.3 and I see >multiple postings all the time. > >Sean Cunningham Ah, Sean. What CAN I say? Did ye read the original, laddie? ``If your software worked...'' And it's a BIG `if', too. The man's statement is true. The fact that you see cross-posted articles more than once simply means your software doesn't work. I wasn't aware that 4.3BSD included special code in the kernel that prevented execution of user images that had bugs in them. -Karlos