12 Jan
2017
12 Jan
'17
5:57 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:52:22AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
But that SVr3 beast is not in Svr4.
Correct, it got dumped in favor of the VFS layer from SunOS, which I
said already.
My point is that you were telling Berny that the FSS wasn't from
SV but it was.
You should go read that wikipedia page, so far as I can tell it's pretty
accurate and has a better version of the history that you do.
I suspect you've fallen victim to various people claiming stuff that
wasn't really accurate. Like Bill Joy being responsible for SVr4.
If by "responsible" you mean he worked on the code, I'm sure that's
not true. If by "responsible" you mean he talked to AT&T about it,
sure, that's pretty likely. You made it sound like the former which
just isn't plausible. For lots of reasons.
It is
rather a part of the VFS interface that has first been completed with
SunOS-3.0 in late 1985.
I think you are once again confused. System Vr3 had something called the
file system switch which is what Berny is talking about. SunOS had
virtual file system layer (VFS) and that would be one of things ported
to SVr4.