SemiOT: filePro on FreeBSD chown gotcha

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:43:48PM -0400, Fairlight thus spoke:
> 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
> > >SVR4happens to be . SVR3 contains none. But SVR4 is still
> > >SVR4SysV. 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.

Not dropped but settled and the code was freed.  Dropping the suits
would have left things in limbo.


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