What a fcking day

Posted by Nico Golde in random blurb
Wednesday, July 12. 2006

I can not commit to the cvs repos at university to submit my work on the webserver cause there is no free space left there:
cvs log: Logging .
cvs log: failed to create lock directory for `/home/ni/ni/lehre/cvs/unix/g102/Blatt5' (/home/ni/ni/lehre/cvs/unix/g102/Blatt5/#cvs.lock): No space left on device
cvs log: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/ni/ni/lehre/cvs/unix/g102/Blatt5'
cvs [log aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

I have one idiot in my working group who is consequently destroying our work every day, today I found this in the source code:

Der betreffende Code sieht so aus:
case 'a': aport=atoi(optarg);
checkAdmin(int a); <===== LOOK AT THIS
break;

and

#ifdef _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE
switch(fddir->d_type){
case DT_REG: printf("Normal Datei\n");
break;
case DT_DIR: printf("Verzeichnis \n");
break;
}

As far as I know the second code ist platform AND filesystem depended. The guy don't know stat so I think its just bad copy&paste.
Lateley his plan was to work on the authentication of a admin port and he told us that he did some research and found some
methods of authentication, biometrics, fingerprint and some other weird stuff.
But the best thing with this code is that he tried to implement parts which we had already implemented cause
he is not able to read our code.

If university tought me one thing until now its: NEVER OPEN A WORKGROUP WITH PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW.

Oh and I had lots of fun with learning 8 hours for theoretical computer science test (one week left).

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Welcome to the real world. In EVERY software development projectgroup is at least one coder with down to zero coding skills. You are not always in the position to choose you team members, even if YOU are the project leader. (There is always a boss above you, that forces you to add the boyfriend of his daughter to your team. or something.)

#1 bb on 2006-07-12 21:08 (Reply)

yes sadly true. btw whats your real name?

do i know you?

#2 nion on 2006-07-12 22:07 (Reply)

well, I don't think you kown me. I just came across your blog some month ago, since then its on my blogroll. RN? well my (lousy updated) blog is named badblocks and hosted at supersized.org. Everything else about me is stored in the almighty google serverfarm.

#3 bb on 2006-07-12 22:23 (Reply)

You can't assume, that everbody is as clever as you are!

#4 Anonymous Coward on 2006-07-15 04:47 (Reply)

Of course I can, good knowledge of the C programming language was a precondition for this course.

#5 nion on 2006-07-15 15:12 (Reply)

but this term ("good knowledge") is very strechty. for example it could mean, that one knows something about printf/scanf or it could mean that one is the real kernel hacker and understands things like:

int a[2] = { 5, 7 };
int i = 1;
printf("a[i]=%i, i[a]=%i\n", a[i], i[a]);

without any problems.

#5.1 gregi (Homepage) on 2006-07-31 22:43 (Reply)

I cant see anything stretchy here. Good knowledge means that you know that you dont pass the argument type to a function call, yes.
Also your example is not valid you dont have to be a kernel hacker to understand i[a] and apart from this its imho just bad coding style so I can't see your point here.

#6 nion (Homepage) on 2006-07-31 22:59 (Reply)

you should compare it with being a good driver - everyone thinks he/she is - but in fact such drivers are really rare.
often people think they know a programming language, because they visited school or some courses for a long time.
programming good code is an ability which can be trained on the one side, but there has to be some "talent" - like playing an instrument - you got my point?

#7 gregi (Homepage) on 2006-07-31 23:38 (Reply)

No thats not the point you dont even need to be an experience programmer to know that you dont pass argument types to function calls. Thats what I meant with its not stretchy.
Oh and btw the kernel code really sucks in some sections so kernel hackers aren't ubergod all themself

#8 nion (Homepage) on 2006-08-01 12:32 (Reply)

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