Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie
From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: 4.3 Tahoe rrestore bug
Keywords: 4.3,tahoe,restore
Message-ID: <936@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 24 Nov 88 06:53:38 GMT
References: <23669@pprg.unm.edu> <921@bacchus.dec.com> <486@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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In article <486@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
# [...]
# Note that under SunOS:
# 
# 	1) The directory library routines use "getdirentries()" in 2.x
# 	   and 3.x releases, and "getdents()" in 4.0.
# [...]
# The SunOS version of "restore" contains what amounts to a copy of the
# "old" directory library (the one that directly reads the directory file).

Thanks, Guy.  It looks like you're *still* the best Usenet info source about
SunOS even though you don't post from Sun anymore.

One question, if you (or anyone else) knows: why was this change made?  I
know Sun would never, ever make a gratuitous, incompatible change to the
semantics of a library routine.  What was the motive (this time)?
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