24 Apr
2022
24 Apr
'22
5:24 p.m.
can someone point me at the earliest version of whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
24 Apr
24 Apr
5:48 p.m.
ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
can someone point me at the earliest version of
whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
Looks like 2.79 BSD. From the TUHS archives:
$ tar -tzvf 2.79bsd.tar.gz | grep /whereis
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0 4412 1979-04-21 06:34 bin.v6/ucb/whereis
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1692 1981-01-13 17:37 man/whereis.u
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 4519 1981-01-13 17:37 src/whereis.c
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 3851 1979-04-19 07:04 upgrade/src/whereis.c
Hope this helps.
Arnold
5:59 p.m.
Thanks.
I did find a newer-ish version and I always get a kick out of stuff like this:
free_dirlist(&ls, ALL_DIRS);
right before the call to exit ... an inappropriate response to an
inappropriate warning, I suppose
I once had an intern ask me "but if you don't free memory before the
program exits, then it can never get used again, right?" :-)
(and yes, I know, in the paleo era, that was in fact true)
I'll go try to find that archive ...
ron
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 8:48 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
can someone point me at the earliest version of
whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
Looks like 2.79 BSD. From the TUHS archives:
$ tar -tzvf 2.79bsd.tar.gz | grep /whereis
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0 4412 1979-04-21 06:34 bin.v6/ucb/whereis
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1692 1981-01-13 17:37 man/whereis.u
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 4519 1981-01-13 17:37 src/whereis.c
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 3851 1979-04-19 07:04 upgrade/src/whereis.c
Hope this helps.
Arnold 
6:31 p.m.
On Apr 24, 2022, at 8:59 AM, ron minnich
<rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks.
I did find a newer-ish version and I always get a kick out of stuff like this:
free_dirlist(&ls, ALL_DIRS);
right before the call to exit ... an inappropriate response to an
inappropriate warning, I suppose
I once had an intern ask me "but if you don't free memory before the
program exits, then it can never get used again, right?" :-)
(and yes, I know, in the paleo era, that was in fact true)
I'll go try to find that archive ...
ron
At $WORK we have a standing rule that all memory must be freed before the program exits.
This is to ensure that the rest of the program doesn’t have any memory leaks. ASAN,
UBSAN,
Valgrind and the rest are good and far from perfect for detection of problems.
However making sure to free all memory before exit() does aid them in finding problems
early.
David
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 8:48 AM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> can someone point me at the earliest version of whereis? I first saw
>> it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
>> pages, thanks in advance.
>>
>> I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
>> search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
>
> Looks like 2.79 BSD. From the TUHS archives:
>
> $ tar -tzvf 2.79bsd.tar.gz | grep /whereis
> -rwxr-xr-x 0/0 4412 1979-04-21 06:34 bin.v6/ucb/whereis
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0 1692 1981-01-13 17:37 man/whereis.u
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0 4519 1981-01-13 17:37 src/whereis.c
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0 3851 1979-04-19 07:04 upgrade/src/whereis.c
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Arnold
8:38 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:35 PM David Barto <david(a)kdbarto.org> wrote:
into a
subroutine in a larger system.
(Why they didn't just pipe input into the sort process I never understood).
I hadn't taken any care to free the memory it used (and it used a LOT of
memory),
so after it was invoked a few times, it ran out of space.
I try to be more careful now about keeping track of memory
(but that requires extra memory).
On Apr 24, 2022, at 8:59 AM, ron minnich
<rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks.
I did find a newer-ish version and I always get a kick out of stuff like
this:
free_dirlist(&ls, ALL_DIRS);
right before the call to exit ... an inappropriate response to an
inappropriate warning, I suppose
I once had an intern ask me "but if you don't free memory before the
program exits, then it can never get used again, right?" :-)
(and yes, I know, in the paleo era, that was in fact true)
I'll go try to find that archive ...
ron
At $WORK we have a standing rule that all memory must be freed before the
program exits.
This is to ensure that the rest of the program doesn’t have any memory
leaks. ASAN, UBSAN,
Valgrind and the rest are good and far from perfect for detection of
problems.
However making sure to free all memory before exit() does aid them in
finding problems early.
Some colleagues took an external sort routine I wrote and tried to turn it 
6:27 p.m.
According to the index of documented Unix facilities [1] it first appeared in 2 BSD [2].
[1] https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/man1.html
[2]
https://dspinellis.github.io/manview/?src=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubuserconte…
24 Apr 2022 18:29:14 ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com>:
can someone point me at the earliest version of
whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
6:48 p.m.
It was written for the Cory 11/70 IIRC. It's on my 2BSD tape with a date
of 2/17/80 - which should be on Warren's archives. If you can't find it
send me email off list and I'll send it to you.
Clem
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:28 AM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
can someone point me at the earliest version of
whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
6:54 p.m.
I don't trust my dates for that tape BTW. I'm pretty sure we got it in
early 79, so I clearly rewrote it at some point if the dates show later --
although it might be a copy from Tektronix - which would match that date.
Again my memory is that 1BSD and 2BSD are all a little different. They
were written as needed and sent out, although I think they wrote them a few
at a time. But my tape from CMU is likely to be different from one that
says went to Harvard which was different from what went to Purdue or MIT.
As for when whereis got put into SCCS control, I'm not sure. Take a peak
at Kirk's archives.
Clem
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:48 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
It was written for the Cory 11/70 IIRC. It's on
my 2BSD tape with a date
of 2/17/80 - which should be on Warren's archives. If you can't find it
send me email off list and I'll send it to you.
Clem
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:28 AM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
can someone point me at the earliest version of
whereis? I first saw
it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
pages, thanks in advance.
I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
7:39 p.m.
clem and all, found it, thanks!
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 9:54 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I don't trust my dates for that tape BTW. I'm pretty sure we got it in early
79, so I clearly rewrote it at some point if the dates show later -- although it might be
a copy from Tektronix - which would match that date. Again my memory is that 1BSD and
2BSD are all a little different. They were written as needed and sent out, although I
think they wrote them a few at a time. But my tape from CMU is likely to be different
from one that says went to Harvard which was different from what went to Purdue or MIT.
As for when whereis got put into SCCS control, I'm not sure. Take a peak at
Kirk's archives.
Clem
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:48 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
>
> It was written for the Cory 11/70 IIRC. It's on my 2BSD tape with a date of
2/17/80 - which should be on Warren's archives. If you can't find it send me
email off list and I'll send it to you.
>
> Clem
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:28 AM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> can someone point me at the earliest version of whereis? I first saw
>> it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
>> pages, thanks in advance.
>>
>> I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
>> search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
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