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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: Mounting /usr/spool/mail from HP?
- Message-ID: <BxLu49.n25@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1992Nov11.221801.2738@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <15441@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:14:32 GMT
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- In some other article, Someone else wrote:
- % Suns, on the other hand, depend on their interesting sticky-bit
- % semantics for security,
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- In article <15441@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >Actually, the sticky-bit-on-a-directory semantics are *Berkeley's*
- >semantics, not Sun's; in addition, AT&T picked them up in some SVR3
- >release (with some changes).
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- Unfortunately, HP-UX is not compliant with SVID 2.2, it only
- complies with SVID 2.0 -- making it closer to SVR2 than anything else.
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- Usually reliable sources indicate that HPUX might have a BSD kernel
- hiding inside with most of the good stuff ifdef'd out. We call HPUX
- "Caffeine-free diet UNIX" because it is UNIX with nothing. :-)
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