1 Jan
2022
1 Jan
'22
12:23 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 10:54 AM Adam Thornton
<athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was there for that and I minded like crazy. It was a hugely bad move
in my opinion. Time has not changed that.
Slightly older, but also slightly more
fundamental to the system, you need
look no farther than Solaris's `/bin/sh` for an illustrated example of the
pros and cons of maintaining backwards compatibility. [snip]
Sun is not the exemplar here: the move from SunOS 4's BSD userland to
Solaris 2's SVR4 broke tons of things. They didn't seem to mind that their
customers had to pay the cost of adaptation. The Linux example is also a bit strange. The move from
e.g. `ifconfig` and
`netstat to `ip` and `ss` required lots of local retooling
I never understood why Linux did that.