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EE> == Eric Engstrom <engstrom@src.honeywell.com>

 EE> One point I wanted to make is that SunOS ?.? (Solaris 2.0) is going to
 EE> be entirely SysV-ish.  IMHO, this is BAD; Certain features of BSD
 EE> "features" (group permission semantics being my biggest sticky point)
 EE> are going away in favor of SysV mechanisms.  (but I'm more of a
 EE> admin/user than a OS or kernel guru, so my opinions start from a
 EE> diffferent vantage point.)

Solaris 2.0 contains SunOS 5.0, which is SVR4 based.  SVR4 is a merge of
BSD and SVR3 (and random other cruft); it'll still have BSD groups, for
example, just as SunOS 4.x does.  It'll also have the SysV /etc/rc#.d/*
model rather than the BSD /etc/rc.local, and other good stuff.

Sure, it'll be a change, but at least there's some point to it (unlike,
say, the NeXTStep 3.0 include file reorg :).

I *still* like the SysV cron better, and I'm glad Sun included it in 4.x.
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