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- From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 08:37:32 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
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- In-Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de's message of 21 Jul 92 14:29:14 GMT
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- In <veit.711728954@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
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- ...
- > NIXe or XINe above could be sued. I can imagine an interpretation of what is
- > the "idea of UNIX," it might be a lot of things, including
- > file system (inodes, hierarchical tree, naming conventions)
- > process management (e.g. init, fork, setuid!)
- ~~~~~~
- > device driver management (terminal disciplines)
- > the set of system and user calls (remember the GETCHAR macro)
- > pipelining concept of the shells (in general: user interfacing)
- > Any of the derived versions (or reverse engineered or developed from scratch)
- > has at least one aspect of UNIX. Even if the programmers haven't even seen
-
- Some time ago, in a UNIX manual (which one I unfortunately don't
- remember), I read that the SETUID principle was actually covered by a
- patent (inventor Ken Thompson, I think).
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- MfG,
- Olaf
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