From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 12:55:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E4437B528 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA21862; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:55:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:55:40 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003032055.VAA21862@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <89kh1u$90i$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote in list.freebsd-chat: > :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? According to the FreeBSD manpage, the ln command appeared in V1 AT&T UNIX, which was 1971. However, that one supported hardlinks only. Symlinks where invented much later. The symlink() syscall supposedly appeared in 4.2BSD, which was 1983. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message