From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] NFS aka the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:43:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110214355.GM24126@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <587554b3.6O+E9BGOgaxwufwc%schily@schily.net>
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> The nice idea in RFS was that it supported remote devices, but the iotcl
> handling was a problem in AT&T UNIX before SVr4 ??? added a flag to tell
> whether the data source was in kernel or userland. I am not sure wether RFS
> had a concept like XDR for ioctls.
I believe it did not.
> The funny thing: RFS was supported in SunOS4, but not in SunOS-5.
And Howard Chartok was ecstatic over that decision (he was my office
mate and did the port into SunOS 4.x. Not one of his favorite projects.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 20:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-10 21:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 21:43 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-01-11 0:56 ` Steve Simon
2017-01-11 3:17 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-01-11 3:32 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 3:40 ` arnold
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