From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:49:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202134920.GT6205@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8A41C46-2690-4C3E-8EF3-0B6DCB0FB81C@tfeb.org>
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 01:35:58PM +0000, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2012, at 09:26, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > The Berkeley guys did NOT invent shared libraries. Shared libraries as
> > we know them came originally from Sun, on SunOS 4.x for sure, possibly
> > on SunOS 3.x. (Larry?) Many commercial vendors adopted the design (Ultrix,
> > I think, and maybe others) and finally around 4.4 they found their way into
> > "pure" BSD.
>
> 4. 3 may have had them but not in any version we had, so I'd guess not in a major release, anyway.
I got there when SunOS 4.1 was being worked on and they were definitely in
4.0. 4.0 gave you shared libs, vnodes, mmap, there was a lot of good stuff
in there. It actually worked by 4.1.1 which was probably my favorite SunOS
release.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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2012-02-05 8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32 ` Random832
2012-02-02 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36 ` John Cowan
2012-02-02 18:10 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
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