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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!viper.inow.com!news.he.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:27:51 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57hq67$kp9@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57fipg$q7j@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90615 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1609 comp.unix.internals:11345 casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) wrote: > >There are commercial operating systems based on 4.4BSD. In fact, the last > >time I looked, despite Sun's touting itself a bigtime player in the > >Internet/intranet server market, it was _losing_ market share there to > >4.4-based systems, although of course everyone loses market share to Linux, > >too. > > There was no installed 4.3 BSD base worth mention on hardware now supported > on 4.4 BSD. There never was a big transition requireing serious binary > compatibility. That's not right. The Net-2 code was 4.3BSD (at least wrt. off_t). There has been quite a reasonable userbase using NetBSD 0.something, FreeBSD 1.something, or the commercial BSD/OS 1.something. All of them had to migrate to the 4.4BSD-based system with their next major OS release. Be assured, all of them had old binaries around by that time (and probably also old libraries, though i don't frankly remember any other problems than the already mentioned fcntl() desaster). I think the commercial BSD/OS was the easier case however, since their version 1 systems didn't have shared libs. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j