SemiOT: filePro on FreeBSD chown gotcha

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>This public service announcement was brought to you by Jay Ashworth:
>> > 
>> > Hate to tell you, but Solaris 7 and 8 both constrain chown() as well.
>> 
>> Did you have the impression I'd be surprised?  Polaris is BSD-based.
>
>Bzzzzt.  SVR4-based.  SunOS 4.1.x was the last truly BSD-based Sun offering.
>
>> They stole it from BSD.  Nice to know Polaris has a knob, at least.
>
>SVR4 contains more than a modest amount of BSD code.  Solaris happens to be
>SVR4.  SVR3 contains none.  But SVR4 is still SysV.  It's just enhanced.

Was that the BSD code that AT&T included after stripping the BSD copyright
and licensing text out?

Bill
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