No, it's much older than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code
-rob On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov < flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:04:39 -0500 > Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Rob Pike <r...@golang.org> wrote: > > > To answer your question about creat, ken named it. Why does no one > > > ask about aretu? > > > > I'll bite: what's up with aretu? > > Jugding from Rob's involvement with Plan 9, I googled and found [1] > (search for "aretu" there). > > I'll speculate it stands for "ASCII return" because IIRC on Plan 9, > programs return short strings as their return "codes", not integer > values. > > 1. http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/sleepwake.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
