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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:32:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, handy@sag.space.lockheed.com, nate@mt.sri.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, rkw@dataplex.net, imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199609251832.NAA08445@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609251808.LAA06326@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 25, 96 11:08:59 am

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> > Sun actually went SYSV(-ish) sometime after SunOS 4.1.3.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> mount -o grpid
> 
> Is required on 4.1.3 to force BSD instead of SYSV directory
> inheritance semantics.  This SYSV-ism predates Solaris.

Okay, so where's the rest of it?

Or... need I counter with a feature by feature comparison?

/usr/bin/echo on SunOS has BSD semantics.
[... etc etc etc lines and lines of BSD semantics ...]
Directory inheritance has SYSV semantics.

One feature does not make a system into SYSV.

"Geeeeeeeez!"

... JG



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