21 May
2008
21 May
'08
5:50 p.m.
Warren Toomey scripsit:
What I should have said that the CACM paper
possibly indicates that UNIX went through the stages:
"rwrw" + "x" ==> "rwxrwx" ==> "rwxrwxrwx"
sometime between the points in time known as 3rd and 4th Editions.
I think you did say just that. I was trying to make a more general
point for everyone on the list, not you in particular: not to assume
that the code snapshots we have correspond in any detailed way to the
manual snapshots we have.
--
John Cowan cowan(a)ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
[R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before
Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do
with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among
the orthodox --thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite
undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness. --T. H. Huxley