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Re: References made in chapter one....



On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> While adding a normative statement reference in chapter one for
> specifications, I noticed the section on "related implementations"
> where mention is made of the following:
>
> * BSD	BSD 4.4 Lite version 2 (no URL)
>
> 	We really should get a URL for this.... anyone know of a stable
> 	one off-hand.

The FOLDOC dictionary at http://foldoc.efnet.org/index.html has no entry
for "BSD 4.4-lite". However, they have one about "FreeBSD", mentioning is
is based on BSD 4.4-lite and has its homepage at http://www.freebsd.org.
Hmm...

I was browsing around at the Berkeley web site and found the following:

http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/IRO/Software/Catalog/addl.resource.html

   BERKELEY UNIX
   For information about 4.3BSD, 4.3BSD/Tahoe, 4.4BSD encumbered, and 4.4BSD
   lite, contact:

   Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)
   380 Soda Hall # 1776
   University of California, Berkeley
   Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
   (510) 642-7780 Fax: (510) 642-5775
   pauline@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu
   whall@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu

However, there was no URL :(
Maybe we should ask one of the above mentioned persons, if there is such a
thing.

>   Also, these functions should probably get documented first when we start
>   the LSB 1.1 effort, since I'm concerned about "code drift"; it's been a
>   long time since BSD 4.4 Lite, and the library interfaces may have
>   changed in subtle ways since then.

Yes, that sounds reasonable.

> * GNU/Linux defacto standard	http://www.gnu.org/
>
> 	This is a bit too broad; if we mean "glibc" or "bash" we should
> 	say so, and then specify exaclty which version we mean.

Yes.

Bye.
	LenZ
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