From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 24 00:16:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B569216A404 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (bhuda.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E51613C45B for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57615 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Feb 2008 00:15:40 -0000 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:15:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:15:39 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080223191539.4b29880d@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20080223.162836.-1286958600.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20080223131937.182373b2@bhuda.mired.org> <20080223.120546.74701383.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080223155355.3f80b77f@bhuda.mired.org> <20080223.162836.-1286958600.imp@bsdimp.com> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) From: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:16:56 -0000 On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:28:36 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > In message: <20080223155355.3f80b77f@bhuda.mired.org> > Mike Meyer writes: > : > In short, I'm continuig the long tradition that we've done as FreeBSD > : > and that BSD and other Unix vendors did before us: compatibility with > : > other implementations. > : > : I suspect your definition of "long tradition" is a lot shorter than > : mine. That's they only way I can make that statement make sense - at > : least the part about BSD and other Unix vendors. > > Long tradition here spans about 30 years. SunOS 3.5 had many switches > that did nothing, but were there for compatibility with System III > systems, as one example. That's one example. On the other hand, trying to go from SunOS 3 or 4 (or BSD 4) to other systems - HPUX, AIX, OSF, RiscOS, UniCOS and SunOS 5 being the easy ones to recall - left users wondering what the hell had hit them. Being compatible with other vendors was so unimportant to most vendors that the unix market was generally regarded as balkanized. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.