14 Dec
2024
14 Dec
'24
3:09 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 3:28 PM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM Mark Seiden
<mseiden(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now
think is apocryphal and never actually happened.
The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file
had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked
out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to
check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just
learned to check in twice."
I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that
behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I
mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story,
though.
- Dan C.
(I know there is a special place in hell for
those who explain a joke, but, you asked…)
it’s just an allusion to the Black Flag Roach Motel product (still being produced)
which has a trademark on the phrase “Roaches Check in… But they Don’t Check Out”.
Yeah, I knew that much. My question to Ken was about what this was saying about SCCS.