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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:16:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stacy Olivas <olivas@digiflux.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD code that gives you the *shivers*?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030123141655.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <000901c2c267$119172c0$0502000a@sentinel>

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On 22-Jan-2003 Stacy Olivas wrote:
> A while back I ran across something on one of the Linux lists asking what
> the
> scariest code in the linux kernel was.
> 
> Just out of sheer curiosity, what would people consider to be the scariest
> code in the FreeBSD
> codebase?   And why?  (Please don't post something like "everything under
> /usr/src/gnu" because it's
> all GNU code).

In the kernel without question:

src/sys/i386/isa/gpib.c  (at least as far as ugly code goes)

I think Peter broke down and cleaned it up in -current though.  It's
still nice and grotty in 4.x.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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