I fixed a little bug in UNIX V4 that had been bugging me. It took a terminal session of 5596 lines, including all the code I read, to arrive at a 4-line fix. Imagine all the paper.
https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-v4-demo/commit/33f294afb9cb48cda9ddbcb159d947d94c4eddd3
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