FS_MAGIC trivium
Barry Shein
bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu at bu-it.bu.edu
Mon Jan 25 10:59:42 AEST 1988
This is not important, but I was looking at some 4.3/4.2 fs.h files
in preparation for a class lecture and noticed that they all had:
#define FS_MAGIC 0x011954
(Sun3.4, Umax3.1, BSD4.3.)
The only guess as to why that number was chosen is that in decimal it
is 1.25.84 so I assume it's a date. CG_MAGIC decodes to 9.2.85 so a
pattern does emerge but I was just wondering if it's my paranoid mind.
Like I said, nothing earth-shattering tonight. Can anyone confirm
this?
-Barry Shein, Boston University
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