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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: df under Xenix 2.2.3 (and earlier?)
Message-ID: <109@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Nov 89 01:24:14 GMT
References: <228@flagship.UUCP> <845@ccssrv.UUCP>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore Amix Development
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In article <845@ccssrv.UUCP> perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:
>In SunOS 3.5 (based on 4.2 BSD) you can provide a directory name and df
>will figure out the proper device.

There is a bug in SysVR3 that will not allow one to use a relative
path as an argument to df [devnm() does a chdir() to search the /dev
directory for devices but never chdir()s back].  This code has propagated
itself to SysVR4-k15.  It may be fix in later k-loads.

Pax, Keith

Ps, you can specify absolute path names to df in SysVR3 with no ill effects.
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ag@amix.commodore.com        Keith Gabryelski          ...!cbmvax!amix!ag