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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
love this thread, and the Wikipedia quote:
——- snip ——-
History
fsck first appeared in 4.0BSD of 1980. It turned into its modern wrapper form in NetBSD 1.3 (1998). fsck is not defined by any extant standard,[2] but the primitive non-wrapper form is present in the 1995 draft Systems Management: File System and Scheduling Utilities (FSSU) from X/Open.[8]As an expletive
The severity of file system corruption led to the terms "fsck" and "fscked" becoming used among Unix system administrators as a minced oath for "fuck" and "fucked".[9] It is unclear whether this usage was cause or effect, as a report from a question and answer session at USENIX 1998 claims that "fsck" originally had a different name:Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"
Question: "What was it called?"
Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"——- snip ——-