From 4e624983027545d762928574d27422f1518ee564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tanaydin sirin Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:02:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update README.md Added link to 4.2BSD finger source code. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0ab457a52..5b4d5709f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The official IOCCC website is [www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org). ## How it was started: The original inspiration of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest came -from the Bourne Shell source and the `finger(1)` command as distributed in +from the Bourne Shell source and the [finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command as distributed in [4.2BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.2BSD). If this is what could result from what some people claim is reasonable programming practice, then to what depths might quality sink if people really From de727a497cf36ff833f293f38fc0f2b00586a939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Landon Curt Noll Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:50:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] modify PR #54 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello @tanaydin, We are about to modify the result of your PR #54, @tanaydin to include a link to the finger daemon source. Unfortunately the finger daemon source is not found in that 4.2BSD repo, so we had to dip into the [4.3BSD-Reno](https://github.com/dank101/4.3BSD-Reno) repo, which isn't exactly correct as that post-dates the 1984 IOCCC starting event but will have to do. We modified the link to use HTML "Left Parenthesis" and "Right Parenthesi" as per [IOCCC markdown guidelines regarding LITERAL “(” or “)” in markdown link titles](https://www.ioccc.org/markdown.html#parentheses) in order to your mod to pass the web site test code. We also modified the references in the FAQ, as per your suggestion. We also performed needed changes to update the associated HTML files. We thank you for recommending this change. Stay tuned for the update. --- README.html | 7 +++++-- README.md | 7 +++++-- faq.html | 7 +++++-- faq.md | 7 +++++-- sitemap.xml | 8 ++++---- 5 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.html b/README.html index eb6edfb76..15fb61979 100644 --- a/README.html +++ b/README.html @@ -447,8 +447,11 @@ mealy-mouthed denials and obfuscations.

The official IOCCC website is www.ioccc.org.

How it was started:

The original inspiration of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest came -from the Bourne Shell source and the finger(1) command as distributed in -4.2BSD. +from the Bourne Shell source and the +finger(1) command +along with its associated +fingerd(8) daemon +from early 4BSD. If this is what could result from what some people claim is reasonable programming practice, then to what depths might quality sink if people really tried to write poor code?

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5b4d5709f..2a44d9601 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ The official IOCCC website is [www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org). ## How it was started: The original inspiration of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest came -from the Bourne Shell source and the [finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command as distributed in -[4.2BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.2BSD). +from the Bourne Shell source and the +[finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command +along with its associated +[fingerd(8)](https://github.com/dank101/4.3BSD-Reno/tree/master/libexec/fingerd) daemon +from early 4BSD. If this is what could result from what some people claim is reasonable programming practice, then to what depths might quality sink if people really tried to write poor code? diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index 60f4dac4a..9cf0be874 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -5258,8 +5258,11 @@ judging the IOCCC. A Unix man page for cb and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.

Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code #defined -to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the finger(1) -program from early BSD (a bug ridden finger implementation to be sure).

+to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the +finger(1) command +along with its associated +fingerd(8) daemon +from early 4BSD.

We happened to both wander (at the same time) out to the hallway in Building 7C to clear our heads.

We began to compare notes: ‘You won’t believe the code I am trying to fix’.

diff --git a/faq.md b/faq.md index 86aab2780..38be6bee7 100644 --- a/faq.md +++ b/faq.md @@ -6553,8 +6553,11 @@ and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code. Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d -to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)` -program from early BSD (a bug ridden `finger` implementation to be sure). +to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the +[finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command +along with its associated +[fingerd(8)](https://github.com/dank101/4.3BSD-Reno/tree/master/libexec/fingerd) daemon +from early 4BSD. We happened to both wander (at the same time) out to the hallway in Building 7C to clear our heads. diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml index a2a7a3096..f009bcc9f 100644 --- a/sitemap.xml +++ b/sitemap.xml @@ -15414,11 +15414,11 @@ https://www.ioccc.org/faq.html - 2025-01-16T23:38:07+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:47:55+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/faq.md - 2025-01-16T23:38:07+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:45:58+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/inc/index.html @@ -15466,11 +15466,11 @@ https://www.ioccc.org/README.html - 2025-01-10T06:50:02+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:47:59+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/README.md - 2025-01-10T06:43:52+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:46:04+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/robots.txt