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Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix Bug

Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix Bug, Traced all the way back to 1975

Martyr2	12 Jul, 2008 - 04:15 PM Post #1
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 7,307 Thanked: 838 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	I just thought Unix developers (especially those in BSD variants) would get a kick out of this. A developer managed to trace a bug back to one that was developed near the beginning of Unix. It was introduced in yacc around the year 1975 and this developer found it and fixed it. Here is the official article. Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug - ITWorldCanada.com As many of you know the Mac OS and other systems have sprung out of this BSD operating system code could possibly contain the bug as well. Enjoy! This post has been edited by Martyr2: 12 Jul, 2008 - 04:22 PM
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