4.3 Tahoe rrestore bug
Paul Vixie
vixie at decwrl.dec.com
Thu Nov 24 16:53:38 AEST 1988
In article <486 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
# [...]
# Note that under SunOS:
#
# 1) The directory library routines use "getdirentries()" in 2.x
# and 3.x releases, and "getdents()" in 4.0.
# [...]
# The SunOS version of "restore" contains what amounts to a copy of the
# "old" directory library (the one that directly reads the directory file).
Thanks, Guy. It looks like you're *still* the best Usenet info source about
SunOS even though you don't post from Sun anymore.
One question, if you (or anyone else) knows: why was this change made? I
know Sun would never, ever make a gratuitous, incompatible change to the
semantics of a library routine. What was the motive (this time)?
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