Hi Ingo,

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:11:55PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
| > Talking about BSD not being able to distribute SCCS doesn't help
| > anyone;
| > not behaving like the original SCCS is obvious considering the
| > STANDARDS section specifically notes OpenBSD extensions and
| > compliance with POSIX.
| 
| I almost felt like proposing to delete the utility outright.
| We stopped embedding identifier strings into binaries many years ago.
| 
| Then again, who knows whether some scripts somewhere still call it.
| Keeping it costs almost nothing, and it is not dangerous.

It's not completely useless:

[weerd@pom] $ doas what /bsd
/bsd
        OpenBSD 6.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #597: Thu Jan 10 21:47:25 MST 2019
[weerd@pom] $ what `which ksh`
/bin/ksh
        PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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