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None of those things are at all desirable. setuid uucp? Security nightmare. strictatime? Not needed. Linux doesn't do it either. Apple has retained the good pa

by 7e 9mo ago

None of those things are at all desirable. setuid uucp? Security nightmare. strictatime? Not needed. Linux doesn't do it either. Apple has retained the good parts of UNIX and ignored the shitty parts. In the end, it is more UNIX than Linux is.

bigyabai 9mo ago
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- subjectsigma 9mo ago
  I don't disagree, but what does that possibly have to do with macOS being a Unix or not?
- keeganpoppen 9mo ago
  fantastic point… about… what? certainly not TFA…
fragmede 9mo ago
Yeah, like a really shitty ancient version of bash. If that's what UNIX means to you, I'm not gonna yuck your yum, but what could be more UNIX like than letting license issues make life worse for your users. Hey, at least it isn't *BSD! (Or, well...)
- ada0000 9mo ago
  macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.
  - fragmede 9mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix but if you've not seen them before then maybe start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
    - ada0000 9mo ago
      I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)
- pjmlp 9mo ago
  bash doesn't mean UNIX, in fact UNIX means being able to chose your shell.
  - fragmede 9mo ago
    I'm fairly certain that the UNIX standard isn't limited to the manpage for chsh.
    - pjmlp 9mo ago
      Then you are also fairly certain that it doesn't include latest version of bash, rather sh, and are aware of what the difference means.