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Date:      Tue, 4 May 1999 10:41:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, hibma@skylink.it, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hysterical names (was: names of globale variables)
Message-ID:  <199905040841.KAA21824@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19990504154225.S10134@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 4, 1999  3:42:26 pm"

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It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> It goes back further than BSD.  Here's the definition from a pre-BSD
> /usr/src/buf.h, probably some of the oldest C code in existence:
> 
>   -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      592 Jan 22  1973 buf.h
> 
> struct buf {
> 	int	b_flags;
> 	struct	buf *b_forw;
> 	struct	buf *b_back;
> 	struct	buf *av_forw;
> 	struct	buf *av_back;
> 	int	b_dev;
> 	int	b_wcount;
> 	char	*b_addr;
> 	char	*b_blkno;
> } buf[NBUF];

I LOVE the simplicity of that though, our one is bloated beyond
recognition...

-Søren


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