Documented Unix facilities (across 93 major Unix releases)

by adg001on 10/26/2022, 3:15:25 PM with 3 comments
  • by guiraldellion 10/26/2022, 4:53:10 PM

    What a great surprise (but not shocking) to see it's a work of the author of "Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" [1].

    [1]: https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/

  • by asveikauon 10/26/2022, 6:42:26 PM

    When they list first appearance, it's weird that the only modern system they consider is FreeBSD.

    There are a few interfaces that were introduced in Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc. that saw subsequent broad adoption across all of modern Unix-like OSs, FreeBSD included.

  • by jlokieron 10/26/2022, 10:24:45 PM

    Some interesting anomalies that look like errors in the tables. E.g. setjmp() present in 32V, BSD3 and BSD 4.2, but longjmp() not present. That doesn't make sense and doesn't match their man pages.