18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
6:20 p.m.
On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
They do it _today_.
Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, and
the last release of Ultrix was in 1995..
The first release of SunOS that I ran was 3.5 (1988-89?), which did
it. The first release of Ultrix that I ran was 3.0 (1990 maybe?), which
did it too.
I can't remember what I did in 1986, honest.? Of
course I've changed
/etc/inetd.conf when I put up new services.? And I can't for the life of
me remember what I did to poke a re-parse.
You sent a SIGHUP. I promise. :)
If it was a SIGHUP, then I probably thought that odd.?
Now I'm
dissatisfied with the term Unix 'standards' because they are until they
aren't,
...like anything else...
also depending on what implementation you happen to
find
yourself trying to execute on.? And if it needed to change, why exactly
did the old interface need to get ditched, really?? Now I have a bunch
of scripts to rewrite.? For what?
I've run UNIX all day, every day, on at any one time anywhere from a
dozen to several thousand systems from a dozen vendors, for 37 years. I
have *never* been burned by what you're describing. Not once.
What I HAVE dealt with is scripts I'd written being rendered obsolete
by vendors introducing functionality in subsequent OS releases that
solved the problem that I'd solved with my script. And honestly I'm ok
with that.
I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of
academics eternally
discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just picking something.
Very true. The only way to truly protect yourself is to have the
source code and revert any poor decisions that they make. Oh, wait, we
can do that!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA