25-year-old BSD bug finally squashed

From OS NewsA few days ago, Marc Balmer, OpenBSD developer, received an email from an OpenBSD user. The email claimed that SAMBA would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. Balmer got into contact with a few SAMBA developers who claimed that SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on BSD systems: the code for reading directories in all BSDs was flawed.
Understandably, Balmer's first reaction was disbelief. "Of course my first reaction was to blame Samba," he writes. Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in August of 1983.

The 25 Year Old BSD Bug [OS News]

[#1 posted by koolkev , May 11, 2008 11:10 AM]

Someones gona get fired!!

Can they take back a degree granted on a flawed dissertation project?

No really good work and this makes me feel good about moving to open source. The ubuntu I'm using should be perfect in 25 years.

[#2 posted by Not a Doktor , May 11, 2008 1:48 PM]

damn that's older than I am

[#3 posted by bardfinn , May 12, 2008 7:46 AM]

BSD: One filesystem bug, fixed 25 years later.
Windows: 10000 filesystem bugs, requiring a complete re-write of the operating system, 25 years later.