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Date:      22 Jun 2001 02:27:41 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: most complex code in BSD?
Message-ID:  <xzp7ky5e4ua.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:
> In everyone's opinion, what is the most complex code in the BSD codebase?
> Not including asm (unless there is an especialy exemplary example of
> obfuscated code, but it seems compilers are better at that  ;-) what code is
> most likely to turn a newbie's brain to tapioca?

Most likely NFS, though it's not as bad as it used to be.  The VFS
system is probably a close second (namei() anyone?).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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