From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berny@berwynlodge.com (Berny Goodheart) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:32:18 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: <58750ac6.xDyt5KJHPLKiEQfS%schily@schily.net> References: <79091EE2-D7F8-4BE2-9422-47C365780367@berwynlodge.com> <20170110162024.GP8099@mcvoy.com> <58750ac6.xDyt5KJHPLKiEQfS%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: > On 10 Jan 2017, at 16:24, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:12:19PM +0000, Berny Goodheart wrote: >>> From SunOS: >>> /proc >> >> Pretty sure /proc was not a SunOS thing. > > and I believe that Roger Faulkner did come from AT&T Yes. And I should know this as I communicated and met with him on several occasions when I was developing /proc for Janus (Linux binary emulation) on Solaris x86. So, I was defo wrong on this. /proc was done by Roger at AT&T (maybe USL). I recall him telling me that he was not the original author though and that it came from PWB. > >>> From SVR3: >>> .so libs >> >> If you mean shared libraries, SunOS had those. If it's more nuanced >> than that, I'd defer to Gingell. > > .so is a name introduced by SunOS-4 > > What Svr3 had, was shared libraries that have been installed in the kernel > during boot up into multi-user mode using a special program. In order to > manage this, you needed to have a global library manager that defined start > addresses for the load addresses of the libraries. My bad again….there will probably be many more. It’s old age you see ;) I meant shared libraries. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/