21 Oct
2019
21 Oct
'19
7:31 p.m.
Thanks, didn't mean it as a GNU thing at all. Sure, mkdir would've existed
back in research Unix too. My experience has only been limited to the Linux
envs, which is why I was led to attribute mkdir to the evolution in
mknod(), I only know that they all either descended down from SysV or BSD,
those who have used the real Unices would know better. Seeing as I haven't
had the privilege of using any except briefly on an emulator.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:30 PM Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen(a)firemail.de>
wrote:
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Abhinav Rajagopalan
Also, 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. Running the PDP-11 v7 on SIMH showed that, gotten so
accustomed
to the Linux env that thinking backwards seemed suddenly arcane.
that's not true. mkdir isn't a GNU invention. Its much older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkdir#History
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html