14 Aug
2025
14 Aug
'25
3:43 a.m.
Martin Schröder <martin(a)oneiros.de> wrote:
Am Mi., 13. Aug. 2025 um 17:00 Uhr schrieb
<arnold(a)skeeve.com>:
Yes.
It was a different RFS, developed by USG. It had
full Unix semantics,
including ioctls and fcntl, for machines of the same architecture. It
was stateful, which meant if the server went away, you could hang your
shell at the very least. It first came out in SVR3.
Was that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_File_Sharing ? If so, that article wants some love from an expert.
I"m not enough of an expert to tackle it. I used RFS in a classroom
setting for a few years, but that's it, and that was ~ 30 years ago.
And what became of it?
It never caught on. Source for it can be found in SVR3 and SVR4,
if you have those.
Arnold