SemiOT: filePro on FreeBSD chown gotcha

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Jun 22 12:43:48 PDT 2004


The honourable and venerable Bill Campbell spoke thus:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
> >
> >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?

That would be the same code, yes.  Well, I say that being as sure as I can
without having access to the actual source.  But yes, everything I've read
says that is where the issue between them was.

Which is just as well, because it led to the mutual dropping of both suits.

mark->
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