Solaris/x86 rant

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Fri Jun 22 15:36:23 EDT 2007


"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:

> Digital changed the name too which broke fewer scripts.   I liked the way it
> mixed BSDisms and SysVisms.

Today they call a system which does this Linux :) 

Though, it's amusing to see that *BSD now has /etc/init.d/* as well.
They just spell it differently: /etc/rc.d/*

> I ran into an issue porting csh scripts

Yeah, haven't we all :)

> I ended up converting it to ksh (a good idea anyways)

Right, or to perl.

-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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