A clue as to why I did this in the first place can be found in the date of the first attempt ;). Can’t remember whether I did get the code to work back then; but in those days if you forgot the #include
This means the whole thing needs to be rebooted and every user would be abruptly dsconnected, probably was yet another reason why I got slung out of there. I didn’t even intend to do that, had probably unearthed what is now known as a buffer overflow vulnerability but didn’t know what it was back then; and it showed the kernel code itself was flawed. perhaps the profs didn’t know how to fix it either and/or used a proprietary version of Unix (Linux and BSD were only just being invented then!)
Of course today a Raspberry PI is way more powerful than that minicomputer; and this one isn’t being used by anyone else at the same time.
As I know the code works I tried it on a VPS I rent elsewhere in Europe.
I wonder who else here might be able to explain why the “cow” doubles in size?
