[TUHS] Attempting To Build NOSC and BBN UNIXs + ARPANET code
Phil Budne
phil at ultimate.com
Sat Oct 15 02:08:18 AEST 2022
Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:
> sys4.c: I think this is available in BBN V6:
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/ken <https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/ken>
> In this file the only real network addition is Jack Haverty’s user timer variable, I think. What else is missing?
Side question: What/when is the origin of the pty driver?
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/dmr/pty.c
Has a revision history, but no date/author for its origin.
And
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SRI-NOSC/dmr/pty.c
is simpler, and lacks the changes and history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoterminal#History
claims:
"Unix pseudoterminals originated in 1983 during the
development of Eighth Edition Unix and were based on a similar
feature in TENEX."
But the above pty.c clearly predates that.
Wikipedia continues with further bogosity:
They were part of the 4.2 release of BSD, with a rather
cumbersome openpty() interface defined for use.
with a link to https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=openpty&sektion=3
which says
"The openpty() and forkpty() functions first appeared in 4.3BSD Reno."
ISTR in 4.2 days there wasn't any library code to open a ptyXX/ttyXX pair,
which was CERTAINLY cumbersome. forkpty is downright handy, and portable.
phil
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