[self-interest] Archeology

[David Ungar]

That's Lars Bak's comment. He went on to do great things. Check the corresponding code in Dart to see if it's fixed. :)

- David
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> On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:58 PM, "Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com [self-interest]" <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I think it was Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep that has computer archeologists who don't so much program as decypher ancient computer systems. Self is at times a bit like that, though hopefully I won't awaken a hostile weakly godlike AI :)
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> Exhibit A, a comment in "globals sunLinker loadPath: fpath IfFail: errBlk":
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> If the scheduler is running _Dlopen has to be wrapped with
>      unixGlobals os_file stopAsync and startAsync to avoid undefined status of
>      stdin, stdout, and stderr in case the dynamic linker decides to 
>      abort this unix process. April 92, LB
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> I wonder whether this bug, whatever it was, has been fixed since 1992 :)
> 
> Russell
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