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- From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: tar and chown (was: Re: Cnews and dashes)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.232959.5377@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:29:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.034615.10048@ceilidh.beartrack.com> <Bs224L.5AG@hico2.westmark.com>
- Organization: D and D Data, Vienna Virginia
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- In article <Bs224L.5AG@hico2.westmark.com> kak@hico2.westmark.com writes:
-
- [ ... ]
-
- >It's possible that I was confused with other earlier versions and clones
- >(I worked on version 6, an early version of Coherent (v7 clone),
- >System III and V.0)
-
- You have the advantage on me. (Perhaps that's why I was able to be
- sure of my opinion, since I had fewer variants to confuse the issue. I've
- worked with only: v7 (UniSoft port), the v7-descendant called OS-8 which
- runs on the BBN C-70 (with lots of stuff from BSD), the SysVr2 from the 3b1,
- a SysVr3 on a Unisys 5000, and BSD variants including various SunOs
- versions, and UTek for the Tektronix 6130 (which is mostly BSD). The only
- ones which allow non-root users to chown are the SysV versions. (I have a
- deeply buried SysIII man set, but I don't care enough about when chown
- became possible to the average user to dig them out. (I *think* I know where
- they are :-)
-
- >I THOUGHT I remembered having a problem chown'ing a file
- >with BSD varients, and I remember it being a rude annoyance,
- >that I'd not expected to have problems chown'ing. But I was
- >on a fair number of flavors of unix around that time (~1983),
- >so I couldn't say for sure just which one annoyed me so.
-
- BSD definately doesn't allow user-level chown, as you remmeber (at
- least, on any variant that I have tried). I have absolutely no experience
- with v6, so it might have been possible there, as well. I have seen some
- rather tortured family trees of unix, which indicate that some of the later
- systems are more derived from v6 than v7, so perhaps v6 did allow it, and it
- leapfrogged from v6 to SysII, and there to SysV.
-
- >Anyhow, my apologies for spreading false information.
-
- You were trying to correct what looked like an error based on your
- experience, and you *did* say that you would check your v7 manuals when you
- got home. I could have as easily made a similar mistake (and probably
- have), and I hope that next time I do, it is corrected as quickly.
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