From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:52:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrbxzkMesjPPX3A0qcHL-Hz_g+k1F2PtBicOkZv3JB5Cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MDG0Mc3jJcbvZYXCo_FZcswt_no=3ajqvx45r-q9gKow@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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>> > From: Clem Cole
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>> > it was was originally written for the for the 6th edition FS (which
>> I
>> > hope I have still have the sources in my files) ...
>> > I believe Noel recovered a copy in his files recently.
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>> Well, I have _something_. It's called 'fcheck', not 'fsck', but it looks
>> like
>> what we're talking about - maybe it was originally named, or renamed, to
>> be in
>> the same series as {d,i,n}check? But it does have the upper-case error
>> messages... :-) Anyway, here it is:
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>> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c
>> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/man8/fcheck.8
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> fcheck ---> aka fsick -- aka fsck -- that's it.
There's a dcheck.c in the TUHS v7 sources. How's that related?
Warner
>> Interestingly, the man page for it makes reference to a 'check' command,
>> which
>> I didn't recall at all; here it is:
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>> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/check.c
>> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/man8/check.8
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>> for those who are interested.
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>> > Noel has pointed out that MIT had it in the late 1970s also,
>> probably
>> > brought back from BTL by one of their summer students.
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>> I think most of the Unix stuff we got from Bell (e.g. the OS, which is
>> clearly
>> PWB1, not V6) came from someone who was in a Scout unit there in high
>> school,
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> Jon Stienhart maybe??? He & Paul Rubinfield were in that scout group years
> ago and were both long time UNIX hackers, but I've forgotten where Stienhart
> did his undergrad.
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>> of all bizarre connections! ISTR this came the same way, but maybe I'm
>> wrong.
>> It definitely arrived later than the OS - we'd be using icheck/dcheck for
>> quite a while before it arrived - so maybe it was another channel?
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> This is Ted's code and my error messages.
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>> The only thing that for sure (that I recall) that didn't come this way was
>> Emacs. Since the author had been a grad student in our group at MIT, I
>> think
>> you all can guess how we got that!
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>> Noel
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> Clem
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 14:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-11 14:21 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 16:17 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 17:11 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-11 21:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 22:06 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 6:24 ` Hellwig Geisse
2017-05-12 21:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-12 23:25 ` Hellwig Geisse
2017-05-11 16:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 16:52 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2017-05-11 17:12 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 20:37 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-11 22:30 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-11 23:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-11 23:48 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-12 0:21 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 2:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 0:16 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 1:41 ` Wesley Parish
2017-05-12 1:05 ` Toby Thain
2017-05-12 8:17 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-12 13:56 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-12 14:22 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-12 14:30 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-12 15:11 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-12 15:52 ` Chet Ramey
2017-05-12 16:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-05-12 8:15 ` Harald Arnesen
2017-05-14 4:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-05-14 17:40 ` Clem Cole
[not found] <mailman.1.1494986402.2329.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-05-19 14:31 ` David
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-16 13:20 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-16 13:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-14 21:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 1:25 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 0:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-13 0:51 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 1:17 ` Chris Torek
2017-05-13 15:25 ` Steve Simon
2017-05-13 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-13 17:19 ` William Pechter
2017-05-14 12:55 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-05-14 22:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-15 1:24 ` Nemo
2017-05-15 18:00 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-16 22:33 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-16 23:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-16 23:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-13 23:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-12 23:30 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-12 23:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-12 23:52 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-13 0:48 ` Random832
2017-05-13 0:22 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-13 0:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 18:43 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-12 18:56 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-12 19:43 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 20:06 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 20:40 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-05-12 21:29 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 21:29 ` Ron Natalie
2017-05-12 15:12 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-12 15:17 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 15:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-12 15:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-11 17:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-05-11 21:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-10 14:08 Diomidis Spinellis
2017-05-10 14:38 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-05-10 23:09 ` Erik Berls
2017-05-11 12:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-05-11 0:49 ` Clem Cole
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