Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com> wrote:
>
>>> It's older and more common than that. It's a BSD-ism.
>> Yep, the beast is quite old. The daemon() function is present in libc
>> sources of 4.4BSD-Lite with a date of 1993. It can be also found in
>> 4.3BSD-Reno with a date of 1990 but not in libc (in libutil).
>
> SunOS was never "based" on 4.3 but on 4.2 + additions from 4.3
>
> Did you check the SCCS when it appeared first?
That is not relevant to this case. It is sufficient to know that it has
been in BSD & Linux libc for many years. Exact dates are historical trivia,
and don't affect whether it's a good idea to ship it now. (What version
SunOS was based on is even more irrelevant, since we're not talking about
modifying SunOS, or using SunOS as historical precedent.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
