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[John P. Nelson]

>>>What?  That famous university-developed system doesn't support any IPC?  No
>>>locks?  No semaphores?  No shared memory?  No messages?  Gee....  No!
>>
>>What?  That big corporation-developed system doesn't have TCP/IP?  No
>>sockets?  No symbolic links?  No cp -r?  No C-shell?  Geee....  No!
>>
>
>Why don't you look for UniPlus+ port of SysV, there you have everything you
>need and then you don't want to run anything else on your machine!.

Not really.  It doesn't support symbolic links.  Or select() using any
file descriptors other than a network socket.  Unix domain sockets are not
supported.  cp -r isn't there either.  Actually, the TCP/IP is an expensive
option - as normally distributed, all the functions like socket(), connect(),
etc. return an error (Unimplemented system call or something like that).
Oh, and some of the TCP/IP socket function interfaces are slightly different
than 4.2 (I can't recall the specifics right now)

Oh, it DOES have C-shell.  However, the kernal does NOT recognize "#!",
which limits the usefulness of csh scripts.

I would rather have berkeley 4.2, but we really need shared memory.

John Nelson (a UniPlus+ System V user)