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Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
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LOC hilarity

Posted 01-09-2015 at 05:35 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 01-09-2015 at 05:47 PM by rocket357 (I can't English)
In a discussion on openbsd's tech@ mailing list, it was determined that ntpd-4.2.8 contained approximately 190k lines of code...a count that came up after the 8 vulnerabilities in ntpd were recently announced.

(DISCLAIMER: lines of code are difficult to count fairly, especially comparing one product to another, but this gives a rough "ballpark" idea of LOC).

Let's see if I can put this in perspective. ntpd checks and sets the time on a machine. In a nutshell,...
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