From: erc@pobox.com (Ed Carp)
Subject: [TUHS] v5 and v6 kernel is mode 777
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 21:31:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EABB1F.7060704@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502230657400.77856@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Yes - I remember those days!
BTW, ever tried running /unix from a shell prompt? :)
On 02/22/2015 12:01 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>>> There's no reason for it to be mode 777 is there?
>>
>> Not that I know of. Once UNIX has booted, it has no use for 'unix' (or
>> whatever file it booted from), and the boot loader doesn't even read the
>> mode.
>
> Didn't "ps" try and read its symbol table? I had fun days when I booted,
> say, "/unix.new", and "ps" wouldn't sodding work...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-23 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 19:50 Noel Chiappa
2015-02-22 20:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-23 5:31 ` Ed Carp [this message]
2015-02-23 18:42 ` scj
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2015-02-22 20:19 Noel Chiappa
2015-02-22 19:36 Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:49 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-02-22 20:30 ` Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall
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