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lsof - My First (I Think) Open Source Contribution

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I happened to need to use lsof tonight and thought “Hey, I contributed code to that back in ‘91”.

I.e. I contributed code to an Open Source project in a prehistoric time before Open Source was a twinkle in Eric Raymond’s eye.

My contribution was the ability to use lsof on kernel dumps for post-mortem debugging.

I wonder if I was credited anywhere?

Yup. Sweet!

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Nicholas Wilt said:

My first open source contribution (also before any Eric Raymond twinkles) was to Fractint, also in the early 90s.

Fractint seems to still be around, though they may want to rethink the name now in light that fixed point isn't a win over floating point anymore.

http://www.fractint.org

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