[TUHS] PDP-7 UNIX filesystem

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Oct 21 21:58:29 AEST 2019


    > From: Abhinav Rajagopalan

    > I only now realized that only mknod existed, up until a long time, only
    > later on with the GNU coreutils did mkdir as a command come into
    > existence.

Huh? See:

    https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man1/mkdir.1

(And probably before that, that was the quickest one to find?)

Maybe that was a typo for 'mkdir as a system call'? (I recall having to do a
fork() to execute 'mkdir', back when.) But 4.2 had mkdir().

       Noel



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