Subject: RE: [hackers-il] A Quarter Century of UNIX -- Hidden messages ?

From: Chen Shapira <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:19:16 +0300

Here's a nice story regarding the code:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~poe/folklore/understand-this.txt

Not exectly the explenation, though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliran [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:11 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: [hackers-il] A Quarter Century of UNIX -- Hidden messages ?
> 
> 
> Hello !
> 
> I have just got the book: "A Quarter Century of UNIX" by 
> Addison Wesley,
> and it seems they have this code on the be 1st page of the 
> book, the code looks like this :
> 
> <code>
> /* You atr not expected to understand this */
> if (rp -> p_flag & SSWAP) {
> 	rp -> p_flag =& ~SSWAP;
> 	aretu (u.u_ssav);
> }
> </code>
> 
> and later there is:
> 
> <something>
> lines 2240-2243; Sixth Edition(C) Western Electric Co.;
> the comment is line 2238.
> </something>
> 
> 
> What do you think it means ?
> 
> Regards,
> Eliran
> -- 
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