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?
J?rg
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