[3889] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Pnews on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Thu Jul 1 15:26:39 1993
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 93 15:26:21 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: eichin@athena.mit.edu ("Mark W. Eichin")
Cc: jik@gza.com, solo26@athena.mit.edu, bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 01 Jul 93 09:51:49 -0400.
<9307011351.AA28970@tsx-11.MIT.EDU>
> Oh, come on. Code that works on SVR4 (you know, the UNIX put
> out by the people that OWN THE NAME, not a mere "variant") should work
> fine on Solaris -- and that's the trouble, most people assume BSD
> instead of POSIX or SVID.
Strangely enough, there are often problems porting software to Solaris
even if it's been ported to SVR4 systems before. Perhaps this is a
false impression on my part, and that the majority of so-called
"SVR4" ports still depend on a number of BSDisms.
Programs which have been ported to SVR3 or even SVR2 tend to work
on Solaris, because if someone's bothered to go that far, they've
probably made the program very pessimistic about what it can
expect from a UN*X system.
-Calvin
