Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:19:35 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes <wes@obie.softweyr.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) Message-ID: <199603181619.JAA12377@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <199603172241.XAA22694@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:41:36 %2B0100 (MET))
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As Ollivier Robert wrote:
> I seem to remember old SysV (3.0 or maybe even 2.x) didn't have
> a mkdir(2) syscall and that was why /bin/mkdir was setuid-root in
> order to mknod the directory. That's probably "legacy code" from
> these days :-)
J Wunsch replied:
% Hmm. Really SysV? I thought the ``one-step commit'' for directory
% creation was older. At least, the ISC SVR3.2 i've once been
% playing with did already have mkdir(2).
SVR2 (as in Microport System V/AT, my first home UNIX system ;^)
didn't. Exec'ing mkdir(1m) was very common in those days.
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