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Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?

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From: Frank D. Cringle
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 07:38
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In article <2t2dnu$60a@alanya.isar.muc.de> lupe@alanya.isar.muc.de (Lupe Christoph) writes:
>gdoering@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Gert Doering) writes:
>
>>BTW... what kind of UUCP lock files does Solaris 2 use? Is it *really*
>>a full-grown SVR4?
>
>/var/spool/locks/LCK.%3d.%3d.%6d. Have a look at Taylor uucp (1.04,
>I haven't started on 1.05 yet), unix/serial.c. I modified the code
>WRT the size of the minor devno:
>
>	sprintf (zalc, "LCK.%03d.%03d.%06d", major (s.st_dev),
>			 major (s.st_rdev), minor (s.st_rdev));
>
>Solaris 2 uses an SVR4-derived kernel and SVR4 based utilities.
>I heard that it actually more similar to SVR4.2 than plain SVR4.

Whoa! mgetty v0.20 handles Solaris2 lock files just fine as it is.
Someone somewhere may know why the prefix for lock files was changed
from LCK in SVR4 to LK in SVR42.  Here are a couple of interesting
strings from /usr/lib/libnsl.a on a stock Solaris2 machine:

   /var/spool/locks/LK
   %s.%3.3lu.%3.3lu.%3.3lu

Script started on Wed Jun 08 09:22:03 1994
cliwe:~ 1>/bin/cu direct
Connected
~[cliwe]$ls /var/spool/locks
LK.032.029.131073
$
~[cliwe].

Disconnected
cliwe:~ 2>ls -lL /dev/cua/b
crw-------   1 uucp     uucp      29,131073 Nov 22  1993 /dev/cua/b
cliwe:~ 3>
script done on Wed Jun 08 09:22:27 1994
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From: fdc@cliwe.uucp (Frank D. Cringle)
Subject: Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?
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