From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) Subject: Re: changing to another virtual console... Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:12:22 GMT
obz@sisd.kodak.com (Orest Zborowski COMP) writes:
>i agree. i just read in unix world how svr4.2 is gonna change the face of
>unix by being the standard. i dunno about that, but it is certainly true
>that most flavors of unix (commercial, that is) are leaning towards svr4
>at least in some fashion, and posix is closer to svr4 than bsd.
They always tell you, that SYSVR4 gonna change the world ... ;-)
Well, SYSVR4 is kinda BSD. Remember that SYSVR4 = SYSVR3 + SUNOS,
and SUNOS is a BSD descendant. So a lot of the BSD features made
it into R4, like job-control, UFS, symbolic links, the directory
structure.
POSIX is partly SYSV-oriented, but also introduced it's own API:
POSIX job-control, termios, signal handling. (Signal handling BTW
is BSD-oriented in POSIX)
Martin
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