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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Is your NeXT secretly running BSD ? (was: PGP v2.1 and NeXT)
- In-Reply-To: engstrom@src.honeywell.com's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:30:03 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:44:34 GMT
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- EE> == Eric Engstrom <engstrom@src.honeywell.com>
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- EE> One point I wanted to make is that SunOS ?.? (Solaris 2.0) is going to
- EE> be entirely SysV-ish. IMHO, this is BAD; Certain features of BSD
- EE> "features" (group permission semantics being my biggest sticky point)
- EE> are going away in favor of SysV mechanisms. (but I'm more of a
- EE> admin/user than a OS or kernel guru, so my opinions start from a
- EE> diffferent vantage point.)
-
- Solaris 2.0 contains SunOS 5.0, which is SVR4 based. SVR4 is a merge of
- BSD and SVR3 (and random other cruft); it'll still have BSD groups, for
- example, just as SunOS 4.x does. It'll also have the SysV /etc/rc#.d/*
- model rather than the BSD /etc/rc.local, and other good stuff.
-
- Sure, it'll be a change, but at least there's some point to it (unlike,
- say, the NeXTStep 3.0 include file reorg :).
-
- I *still* like the SysV cron better, and I'm glad Sun included it in 4.x.
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