Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: 4.2BSD directory routines on SV??? Message-ID: <6138@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 22:33:44 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6138 Posted: Fri Jul 17 22:33:44 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:54:43 EDT References: <276@rruxa.UUCP> <2733@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1359@ico.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <1359@ico.UUCP> dougm@ico.UUCP (Doug McCallum) writes: >And they aren't fully compatible with the 4.2 BSD version either. Well, they couldn't very well be, could they? After all, Bezerkeley decided to reuse the name "struct direct" for a different animal. One cannot reasonably use this name for two different critters on the same system! AT&T's implementation is practically POSIX-compliant (as is the one I posted, which can be used in native BSD environments and which SHOULD eventually replace McKusick's).