Timeline for What is the difference between Red Hat SysV and Unix System V?
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| Jun 27, 2024 at 13:36 | vote | accept | Sandburg | ||
| Jun 27, 2024 at 11:56 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Yes, the sysvinit concepts come from System III. The rc.d structure commonly used on Linux distributions in the past comes from NetBSD. See retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/8289/79 and jdebp.uk/FGA/system-5-rc-problems.html for some of the history. | |
| Jun 27, 2024 at 11:54 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Missing space. sysvinit isn’t a GNU project. |
| Jun 27, 2024 at 10:11 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @ChrisDavies interesting question! Can't even find a reference to the release that it resembles in sysvinit; it just says "compatible with the System V init" (from init.8). I can take a guess from the timeline and from the fact that "BSD-style init" probably descends from BSD4.3, which descends from SVR4, that "System V init" actually means "System III init with all the modification up to including SVR3", but that's really just guesswork | |
| Jun 27, 2024 at 9:56 | comment | added | Chris Davies | System V release 2, 3 or 4? They were markedly different iterations and I remember spending a long time trying to catch up with the new administration tools in (ICL's version of) SVR4. Flagged only for historical purposes, of course | |
| Jun 27, 2024 at 9:45 | history | edited | Marcus Müller | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 75 characters in body |
| Jun 27, 2024 at 9:39 | history | answered | Marcus Müller | CC BY-SA 4.0 |