SVR4 (was: Re: at files and permissions)

[Dave Decot]

> >Does anyone here really know what sort of crud V.4 (not V.3) is going to
> >have in it? Streams *and* sockets, or so I hear...
> 
> AT&T presented an overview of SVR4 at a BOF session at the Baltimore USENIX.
> Therefore lots of people presumably now know what SVR4 will contain and more
> or less how it's implemented.

I found a reference in a draft of SVID89 to a function called
getcontext(BA_OS), but no entry in the book for it.

Will such a function exist, and if so, what will it do?

Dave Decot