6 Jan
2017
6 Jan
'17
8:02 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:50:18PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Yup, that Shannon.
So it seems that you worked on code for SunOS-4.x but
not on code for SunOS-5.x.
That's not true, Sunbox was all 5.x code. I spent about 3 years in the
5.x source base.
I worked on code for the SunOS-4.x kernel and for the
SunOS-5.x kernel and I
ported drivers from SunOS-4.x to SunOS.5-x, so I am pretty sure about what I
write and you may have gotten your impression because you did not compare the
code we are talking about now.
You've been arguing with a guy who was in the kernel group and I've tried to
set you straight and you just keep coming back with misinformation.
Because you worked on filesystem throughput, you
should know the new memory
subsystem from SunOS-4.x well....This is a big part of the SunOS-4.x kernel and
if you check the OpenSolaris kernel sources with your knowledge of the
SunOS-4.x kernel, you should be able to confirm my statements.
The VM system was ported from SunOS 4.x to System 5. Your statements that
SVr4 is based on SunOS are flat out wrong. SVr4 got a lot of SunOS goodness
but the starting point was ATT System V.
* Implemented
smoosh - basis for Avocet and nselite. Talk to Shannon for
confirmation.
Interesting: Do you mean "Bill Shannon"? Was he involved in SCCS or smoosh
as well? I know Bill as the author of "cstyle" and I pushed him to make it OSS
in 2001 already, before it appeared in OpenSolaris. In January 2015, I talked with Glenn Skinner about
SCCS and smoosh and he
pointed me to his smoosh patent:
http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US5481722.pdf
that has been expired in late 2014.
The fact that Glenn didn't put me on that patent is a sore point. Yes,
he wrote the lisp code that showed it could be done. I wrote the C code
that did that in one pass (his stuff was N+M where N was how many deltas
were on the local side and M was how deltas were on the remote side).
--lm