From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199604231719.SAA15032@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "mod_status.c doesn't compile" on SunOS 4.x
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:19:13 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <199604231618.MAA01005@volterra.ai.mit.edu> from "Robert S. Thau"
 at Apr 23, 96 12:18:01 pm
Content-Type: text
Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com

In reply to Robert S. Thau who said
> 
> That's funny... the SunOS release I'm running (4.1.4) was released,
> by Sun, well after Solaris was *long* in the field.  There isn't much
> they can do about their previous releases, but that's not what we're
> talking about here.

Anyone got an old K&R or access to older unix systems, BSD 4.2 or earlier
or early AT&T based systems? I suspect this is a hangover from before
the ideas of grand unification or even C standardisation rather than
some OS vendors simply getting it wrong.

So you're still being unfair. I don't think Sun deliberately changed
that to be against the standard I think they inherited it that way in 
their original sources and their stuck with it now because changing it
would break all existing SunOS 4.x binaries. Since Randy's shown a Dell
system with the same I suspect this was in early BSD versions but I can't
find old enough references quickly.

-- 
  Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.  (Netcraft Ltd. contractor)
  Elsevier Science TIS online journal project.
  Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk
  Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155