[TUHS] cat -v and other complaints
Clem cole
clemc at ccc.com
Thu Aug 30 11:15:33 AEST 2018
And I should added I do miss inetd.conf in both cases.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
> On Aug 29, 2018, at 9:14 PM, Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
> Truth is I think IBM beat Sun on getting loadable modules for the kernel out first. But I was counting the versions that people really looked at which is why I give Linux credit.
>
> It makes sense they modeled on SunOS btw but the fact is the Linux version is what folks like *BSD and macOS modeled after later.
>
> Btw you are 100% right - As for launchd I agree/no doubt - but I’d already given up on MacOS being able to be admin’ed like a Unix box. I can pretty much use it via iterm2 as a user like one and if mostly works as I expect (which I do appreciate).
>
> Linux is seductive enough to make think I should be able to admin it like I have for the last 40 years and it then bites me when I least expect it.
>
> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
>
>>> On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:36 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:34:05AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
>>>> That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of modules
>>>> was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years really
>>>> pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and eventually HPUX
>>>> etc.. had something too but again - my comment about being generally
>>>> available applies).
>>>
>>> Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than I
>>> thought? Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in the
>>> shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat).
>>
>> Yep. And Linux has loadable modules because I posted the SunOS 4.x man
>> pages for the SunOS loadable modules to the kernel list. Proving once
>> again that the open source guys aren't always the greatest at coming up
>> with the ideas but once you show them that it can be done, it gets done
>> quickly. I think they had a prototype working in a week.
>>
>>> Never mind "systemd"; I'm having enough trouble coming to grips with
>>> "launchd" on the Mac... Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.
>>
>> Amen, brother.
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