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(My guess is that it dates from the introduction of fsck which from memory was V7 or later)
by Taniwha 4mo ago
(My guess is that it dates from the introduction of fsck which from memory was V7 or later)
- JdeBP 4mo agoMy guess is that it was undocumented until Release 3 or 4, so the book authors simply never found out about it. Andrew Tanenbaum knew about it at the same time as the first Hunter and Fielding book, but likely this was word-of-mouth stuff. * https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/bbCYhh7_r-8/m/GYh4NE3nE00J https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/bbCYhh7_r-8/... Enjoy the obvious question asked about all this, way back in November 1981: * https://groups.google.com/g/fa.unix-wizards/c/h5mFGIV91Io/m/IL2jaJcsmZwJ https://groups.google.com/g/fa.unix-wizards/c/h5mFGIV91Io/m/... That's the Dave Yost, still at RAND at the time, who went on to make the GRAND Editor. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734536