From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Subject: [TUHS] rm command
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:23:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425212336.DDFB9206BE@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEEd6BV6wjLpcUp=_yi6Vwv32C9jV-W9N39CLVM8d8j0OhH_3w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Eric,
> > it stands for the initials of the developer that wrote
> > the original implementation, Robert Morris.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1/rm.1, i.e. 1st
Ed., says the OWNER is `ken, dmr' so it seems unlikely as I understand
Bell Labs worked on a `last to touch it, owns it' principle.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/u2.s has sysunlink.
It's such a fundamental command that I'd have thought it was an early
obvious addition, and a small one at that. Bob Morris seemed to always
be involved in the more intricate stuff like various crypt(3)s, and TML,
based on what we hear about him. (Google didn't seem to turn up much on
TML.)
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 20:22 Eric Blood
2018-04-25 21:23 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2018-04-25 21:33 ` John P. Linderman
2018-04-25 21:53 ` William Corcoran
2018-04-25 21:58 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-25 22:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 22:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-27 16:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 16:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-27 18:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-27 18:17 ` Pete Wright
2018-04-28 16:33 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-04-28 18:01 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-28 18:51 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-26 2:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-26 9:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-27 16:42 Noel Chiappa
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