Brodie Robertson

How One Linux MAN Easter Egg Caused Chaos


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I love easter eggs in software and this one man easter egg particular so, not because of the easter egg itself more because of the confusion around the whole scenario.
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Unix Exchange Post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
Git Commit 1: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/src/man.c?id=002a6339b1fe8f83f4808022a17e1aa379756d99
Git Commit 2: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/src/man.c?id=91c495389105a4cb6214fe176f703f498e4f0d91
Git Commit 3: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bde8d8a9a357bd372793d25746ac6b49480525
Git Commit 4: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=b225d9e76fbb0a6a4539c0992fba88c83f0bd37e
Hackernews Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747313
Author Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006082
XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Red Hat Bug Report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515352
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