<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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. :)<br><br>- David<div>Sent from my iPhone, tap tap</div></div><div><br>On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:58 PM, "Russell Allen <a href="mailto:mail@russell-allen.com">mail@russell-allen.com</a> [self-interest]" <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>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 :)</p><div><br></div><div>Exhibit A, a comment in "globals sunLinker loadPath: fpath IfFail: errBlk":</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>If the scheduler is running _Dlopen has to be wrapped with</i></div><div><i> unixGlobals os_file stopAsync and startAsync to avoid undefined status of</i></div><div><i> stdin, stdout, and stderr in case the dynamic linker decides to </i></div><div><i> abort this unix process. April 92, LB</i></div></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder whether this bug, whatever it was, has been fixed since 1992 :)</div><div><br></div><div>Russell</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p></p>
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