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Leaked Windows code shows similarity to UNIX

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Now that the cat is out of the bag, I guess it is plain to see that windows shares a lot of similarities with Unix.  SCO would be very interested to know that some lines of code are identical between windows and Unix System V sources.

For example, I found this line in particular to be quite the tell-tale.

for (char *pstr = str; *pstr; pstr++) { ... }

This line of code I found all over the place in windows.  Sometimes those crafty windows devs changed the variable name, but the logic was the same.

You can bet your booty that this was lifted out of UNIX kernel files that predate Windows sources by quite a bit. Luckily, Microsoft has absolved themselves by paying for the right to use the patented 'system for iteration of a character array' covered by the Unix brand.

Unfortunately, I also found this same logic all throughout the Linux sources.  This may mean the end for Red-Hat.

But I digress

Matt

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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    Ivonna (moo), no one bought your gag when you made the same exact posts on my blog, no one will believe them now.
  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    I'm not aware of any ban on using hungarian notation. ADO and the rest of the data access stack shipped as part of windows 2000/NT5 and was full of hungarian.
  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    I have removed all comments posting actual source code.
  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    Dave may have said something along those lines, but it is another matter to actually set policy and be willing to take the 6 months to 1 year hit to rename everything.
  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    yeah I bet he called everybody "n00bs" also :D

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
    Heh I have RW access to ALOT of BU products source here so yeah, the quality has little to be desired with exceptions that are very exceptional.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2004
    Sarcasm as an artform
  • Anonymous
    July 25, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 16, 2008
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