From: <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "'Paul Ruizendaal'" <pnr@planet.nl>, <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] V6 networking & alarm syscall
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:33:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1581c01d4a9c2$ffed5340$ffc7f9c0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39F862F7-7C4B-4A09-B838-942BE0FD2626@planet.nl>
>
> 1. First of all: I understand that early Unix version numbers and dates
mostly
> refer to the manual editions, and that core users had more frequent
> snapshots of a constantly evolving code base.
Eh? They primarily refer to the distributions (Research V6, V7, PWB, the
various BSD tapes).
I'm not sure what "core users" are referring to. Most of us had many
versions as we hacked and merged the stock releasesx.
As Clem mentions, V7 had alarm (but simulated sleep in user mode). PWB
predated that slightly and had both sleep() and alarm() as system calls.
This propagated through to System III and V.
I suspect this all is the result of the philosophy of the guys responsible
for those separate kernel developments rather than an evolution of one or
the other.
As he mentions, I'm fairly sure this has nothing to do with networking
directly. Just too handy not to have.
A bigger networking issue was select() (or the like). It used to be an
interesting kludge of running two processes inorder to do simoultaneous
read/write before that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-11 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 23:12 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-11 0:17 ` Clem cole
2019-01-11 15:33 ` ron [this message]
2019-01-11 18:45 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-11 19:06 ` David
2019-01-11 22:08 ` reed
2019-01-11 22:18 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-12 12:04 ` reed
2019-01-12 17:20 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-12 18:16 ` Eric Allman
2019-01-13 1:16 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
2019-01-11 22:47 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-11 22:55 ` Eric Allman
2019-01-11 23:32 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-11 23:27 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-12 1:24 Noel Chiappa
2019-01-12 1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-12 2:33 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-12 4:14 Noel Chiappa
[not found] <mailman.1.1547258402.6716.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-12 11:13 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-13 10:52 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-01-13 15:39 ` Warner Losh
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