Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:55:40 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <200003032055.VAA21862@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <89kh1u$90i$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote in list.freebsd-chat:
> :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix?
According to the FreeBSD manpage, the ln command appeared in
V1 AT&T UNIX, which was 1971. However, that one supported
hardlinks only. Symlinks where invented much later. The
symlink() syscall supposedly appeared in 4.2BSD, which was
1983.
Regards
Oliver
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