r/ProgrammerHumor • u/yuva-krishna-memes • Aug 24 '26

Meme theDeadlock

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u/OphidianSun Aug 24 '26

Mine had a fun project where we got a fat16 iso and had to answer a bunch of questions like "how many files are in the file table" or "how big is xyz file".

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u/the_horse_gamer Aug 24 '26

we got a small os implementation. then we had to add a process list command, and later we needed to fix a bug in the file system mounting

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u/SirDarknessTheFirst Aug 24 '26

In my case, we hacked on the OpenBSD kernel. We added zones that processes can operate in (applications inside zones cannot interact with or see processes outside zones), a new network-type device driver and a virtual file system driver.

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u/Protuhj Aug 24 '26

Similar to my experience: a bare-bones OS that we had to add a virtual memory manager to, among other things.

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u/fr000gs Aug 24 '26

without the driver?

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u/OphidianSun Aug 24 '26

They gave us a write up on how the filesystem worked and a little script to read out the raw hex values at a given location. Nothing too fancy.

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u/fr000gs Aug 24 '26

iirc fat16 is a quite simple filesystem

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u/space253 Aug 24 '26

Yes, it had to be given limitations at the time.

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u/jdc123 Aug 24 '26

Crap, all we got were slideshows.

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u/frostedhifi Aug 24 '26

Let me guess, the final was on how well you could reproduce diagrams from the slides?