Sachidananda Urs: Sat Nov 29 09:27:05 IST 2008

All the programs under this directory are written to illustrate/understand 
some functionality of larger programs. I've made an attempt to explain the
situations I may have encountered to write the junkcode.

service_dates.zsh:
I was lazy enough to remember the service dates so I wrote this zsh script to
remind me about my bike service dates.

ufs_sblock.c/ufs2_sblock.c/
fstype_rfs.c/disk_seek.c:

While porting fstyp to FreeBSD. I was encountering strange behavior while I
tried to read the sizes of superblock which were sometimes not powers of
two. I later realized that sizes read have to be in powers of 2 for disks on
FreeBSD.

ftw_illus.c/fts_illus.c:

While re-implementing the rename utility (C version), I saw that the recursive
filesytem searching was rather a kludge with seires of chdirs. I found these
rather sparsely used library functions.
This is a illustration of using these library functions, that I've actually
used in the rename implementation.