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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: SVR4 (was: Re: at files and permissions)
Message-ID: <14020066@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 89 22:08:31 GMT
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> >Does anyone here really know what sort of crud V.4 (not V.3) is going to
> >have in it? Streams *and* sockets, or so I hear...
> 
> AT&T presented an overview of SVR4 at a BOF session at the Baltimore USENIX.
> Therefore lots of people presumably now know what SVR4 will contain and more
> or less how it's implemented.

I found a reference in a draft of SVID89 to a function called
getcontext(BA_OS), but no entry in the book for it.

Will such a function exist, and if so, what will it do?

Dave Decot