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25-year old BSD bug is no more [OT]

Ianf [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, May 11, 2008
16 years ago2,924 views

A bug that's been in BSDs since 1983 has finally been found, confirmed, and fixed.

http://mobile.osnews.com/story.php/19731/The-25-Year-Old-UNIX-Bug
[ and in original detail here
http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir]

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It will take more than 25 years to fix all bugs of Windows Vista :)

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Tom I think a complete fix of Vista has already been released... it's called Windows XP ;)

Ianf [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Noooooooo! Vista *IS* buggy? Ya sure it all aint design features?

Zim [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wow. Maybe the oldest bug ever!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The oldest bug is there:
http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/tech/images/first_bug.jpg ;)

Luka [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://storage9.myopera.com/freejerk/files/bug-feature.jpg

Bug VS Feature = Vista VS Xp

Zim [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Very nice one, Tom! haha!

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

So how soon will this be fixed in OS's like Mac OS Leopard or Tiger?

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