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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.022225.2969@kithrup.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 90 02:22:25 GMT
References: <1990Dec04.003651.13014@jadpc.cts.com> <4754@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Dec14.040211.29253@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <1990Dec14.040211.29253@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>Remind me never to take a programming job that involves U.S. government work.
>Those cretins *would* do something stupid like this.

They adopted that option because the Berkeley folks pushed for it (according
to McKusick).

So "those cretins" refers to the folks at Berkeley; SCO went along with it,
after the fact, because it was required for government work.  And note that
it is now possible to configure this off, so it behaves like a sane V7
filesystem (in that respect only).

On the other hand, FIPS also requires job control (which *does* work in
3.2v2, and is quite nice), and I believe it also specifies the sticky-bit on
directories thingy, which is also nice.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.