"C" character set (again)

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Jan 8 11:15:00 GMT 2010


Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>   
>> On Jan  7 17:44, Dave Korn wrote:
>>     
>>> Might be kind of nice for Cygwin to be leading the pack amongst *[iu]x distros
>>> for a change instead of lagging some way behind!
>>>       
>> I can't brag about this often enough.  ACL support in Cygwin existed
>> years before Linux had it.  We're *not* always lagging behind ;)
>>     
>
>   Yep, I forgot about that one :)  Cygwin was basically second after Solaris,
> wasn't it?
>   
Except that Solaris wasn't actually the first. I got familiar with ACLs 
in the famous (?, well-designed, anyway) Apollo Aegis (later Domain/OS) 
system which later was merged into HPUX.

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Thomas



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