10 Jan
2017
10 Jan
'17
5:34 p.m.
The old saw that I wish I had said "great men stand on the shoulders of greater men,
computer scientist like to step on their toes."
The problem I have with this sort of accounting is it leaves out where different groups
took these ideas and integrated them. Others that come later loss that history. For
instance ip/tcp came from bbn, /proc came from research, job control came from MIT,
fsck from CMU etc.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Jan 10, 2017, at 8:20 AM, Joerg Schilling
<schily(a)schily.net> wrote:
Berny Goodheart <berny(a)berwynlodge.com> wrote:
Here???s the breakdown of SVR4 kernel lineage as
I recall it. I am pretty sure this is correct. But I am sure many of you will put me right
if I am wrong ;)
From BSD:
TCP/IP <=== NO, Svr4 uses a STREAMS based TCP/IP stack
C Shell
Sockets <=== NO, BSD has sockets in kernel, SVr4 in
userland
Process groups and job Control
Some signals
FFS in UFS guise <=== NO, rather taken from SunOS-4
Multi groups/file ownership
Some system calls
COFF <=== NO, COFF was from SysV and deprecated in Svr4
From SunOS:
vnodes
VFS
VM
mmap
LWP and kernel threads
/proc <=== NO, /proc did not exist in SunOS-4
Dynamic linking extensions
NFS
RPC
XDR
From SVR3:
.so libs <=== What should this be?
I am not even
sure whether SVr4 included
backwards compatibility for the SVr3
"installed" shared libraries.
revamped signals and trampoline code
+++++sigset() was not in SVr2, I believe
it was not
available in svr3 as
well and rather invented for
Svr4
VFSSW <=== NO, this is from
SunOS-4
RFS
STREAMS and TLI <=== SVr3 did not have STREAMS
IPC (Shared memory, Message queues, semaphores) <=== Already in SunOS-4
Jörg
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