Sunday, December 10, 2023

Friday, May 12, 2023

People keep removing UNIX code

But let's face it, the code was never removed. The authors of the documents don't know which direction time flows in. Here's a clue to the first one about v6. If you look in v7 you see:
sysent.c:       0, 0, nullsys,                  /* 39 = setpgrp (not in yet) */
Oops, it wasn't removed--it had not been added yet. Similarly nobody removed termcap from SysV games, it hadn't been added yet either.