On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:01:41AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > That's why I pointed it out. One advantage of having looked at nearly every > Unix version since V6 in 1977 is that I have a pretty good idea of just how > un-universal "every Unix does $x" actually is. :)
It's always nice to have someone with experience to point out our mis-assumptions. At least, I think so. > > The "almost every Unix-like manpage known to man(1)" resource at > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi> can be quite enlightening as well. Kudos > to the freebsd project for providing that. Thanks for the link. I didn't have that one here. > > And yes, it looks like the linux-flavor unix versions added the notion of > "SIGHUP for death of controlling process", but this is consistently absent for > BSD-style kernels, which work consistent with V7 Unix (The One True Unix). I > wonder why Linus (et. al.) added that? Probably because it's awfully convenient. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The measure on a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas McCauley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
