Collecting favorite bug stories

Adam Quantrill adam at gec-mi-at.co.uk
Fri Jan 16 22:35:27 AEST 1987


In article <2722 at udenva.UUCP> skajihar at udenva.UUCP ("Lord of Sith" Kajihara) writes:
>
>I don't know that this qualifies for what you ask, but the following comes
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>from an inexperience with C and file processing.
> I had a program that would read from n text files and write to an output file.
>The first time that I ran the program, I exceeded the amount of disc quota I
>had on the system.
>  The problem:  in using command-line arguments to identify my files, I had
>inadverdently included my output file as input.  Result:  an endless loop.
> []

YAWN

I thought the original poster wanted HUMOROUS bugs.

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