16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
2:17 a.m.
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I'm sure it was used in many other ways, but that
was certainly one scheme
we used at UCB when wnj added them. Again check the 4.2 docs, where the
BSD group scheme is explained. This did seem useful and System V picked
it up also fairly soon after BSD released it to the world, and fortunately
did not change the BSD semantics.
Not so soon, really. The new group scheme was widely released with
4.2 BSD (~ 1983). System V didn't pick up multiple groups until
System V Release 4, circa 1989.
Arnold