3 Feb
2021
3 Feb
'21
6:19 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:11:44AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
I tend to log in to forums these days as "luckydude" and that story is
just the first of many examples. I have seemed to have gotten lucky
being building up the right experiences and then falling into a job that
can use them. It really made me look better than I am, things just sort
of flowed.
And having almost 6 months to work on whatever I wanted and deciding to
port the networking stack? Priceless down the road. No way they would
have given me that task, I was too green.
Fun times.
I've dealt with this, here is a story of a
super computer where native
pointers pointed at bits but C pointers pointed at bytes and you can shake
your head at the promotion problems:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-September/012050.html
Holy smoking inodes! I'd forgotten that story...