More Questions about Sun OS/ATT Merged UNIX.

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sat Mar 5 02:15:46 AEST 1988


In article <4128 at megaron.arizona.edu> lm at megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
-I hope that this _not_ what Sun is going to do.  Why?  Because it perpetuates
-the problem, rather than attempt a solution.  What really needs to be done is
-to have some smart (set of) person(s) take a long hard look at both kernels
-and boths sets of command trees.  They should come up with a list of items
-that are
-    a) syntactically and semantically the same (i.e., ARE the same)
-    b) syntactically different but semantically the same
-    c) syntactically the same but semantically different (these exist)
-    d) syntactically and semantically different
-and resolve the differences.

Sun pretty much did this already for SunOS 3.2, so it would be surprising
(not to mention annoying) if they failed to do so for the merged version.
After all, what is "merged" about separate environments?



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