At 12:09 PM 2/1/99 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: >> I seem to remember there once was a comment in a well-known body of code, which >> went something like: >> "You are not supposed to understand this." > >It was (IIRC) the process switching magic at the heart of fork() in V7 (and >earlier, I assume).
If I remember right, it referred to the non-local goto juju where if the forked processed was swapped out, the label jumped was changed to yet another place. Unfortunately, my annotated V6 listing is not accessible right now... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
