30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
7:14 a.m.
Truth is I think IBM beat Sun on getting loadable modules for the kernel out first. But I
was counting the versions that people really looked at which is why I give Linux credit.
It makes sense they modeled on SunOS btw but the fact is the Linux version is what folks
like *BSD and macOS modeled after later.
Btw you are 100% right - As for launchd I agree/no doubt - but I’d already given up on
MacOS being able to be admin’ed like a Unix box. I can pretty much use it via iterm2 as a
user like one and if mostly works as I expect (which I do appreciate).
Linux is seductive enough to make think I should be able to admin it like I have for the
last 40 years and it then bites me when I least expect it.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:36 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:34:05AM +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Yep. And Linux has loadable modules because I posted the SunOS 4.x man
pages for the SunOS loadable modules to the kernel list. Proving once
again that the open source guys aren't always the greatest at coming up
with the ideas but once you show them that it can be done, it gets done
quickly. I think they had a prototype working in a week.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of modules
was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years really
pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and eventually HPUX
etc.. had something too but again - my comment about being generally
available applies).
Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than I
thought? Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in the
shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat). Never mind "systemd"; I'm having
enough trouble coming to grips with
"launchd" on the Mac... Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.
Amen, brother.