1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old UNIX bug, squashed only a few days ago. ...
crunchgear.com
So an OpenBSD developer got an email the other day saying SAMBA was having trouble talking to a DOS file system. The developer thought it was a problem with SAMBA until he found that there was a workaround in place to fix issues with some BSD code. He did a little digging and found that the code had been in place since 1983 - meaning that pretty much every BSD system out there, including OSX probably, has had this Rip van Winkle of a bug sitting in it this whole time.
The fix was straightforward and you can find it here .
Found 54 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
cincomsmalltalk.com
With the rise of Macs, this is the sort of old bug that matters: a 25 year old flaw in Samba for BSD. Makes me wonder how many other "oldies but goodies" are lurking in the codebase of BSD...
Found 54 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
it.slashdot.org
sproketboy writes with news that a developer named Marc Balmer has recently fixed a bug in a bit of BSD code which is roughly 25 years old . In addition to the OSnews summary, you can read Balmer's comments and a technical description of the bug .
"This code will not work as expected when seeking to the second entry of a block where the first has been deleted: seekdir() calls readdir() which happily skips the first entry (it has inode set to zero), and advance to the second entry. When the user now calls readdir() to read the directory entry to which he just seekdir()ed, he does not get the second entry but the third.
Found 54 days, 19 hours ago
rssfabriek.nl
Found 54 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
thetechlounge.com
The 25 Year Old BSD Bug @ OS News
Found 54 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
freesoftnews.com
1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.
A few days ago, Marc Balmer, OpenBSD developer, received an email from an OpenBSD user. The email claimed that SAMBA would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. Balmer got into contact with a few SAMBA developers who claimed that SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on BSD systems:
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 18 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
cincomsmalltalk.com
Microsoft has a lock on the corporate side, and likely will for awhile yet. This doesn't surprise me; I've thought for a long while that MS would eventually get big, dumb, and stupid (like IBM did back in the 80's) and stumble. Microsoft had promised a real Windows make-over with Vista and it never delivered ...
Found 402 days, 18 hours, 16 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
