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[ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- Subject: [ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:27:55 -0700
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On 4/17/2013 8:06 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> (The shell having syntax that made pipes scriptable rather than only
> being compiled as in Multics was the major advance in Bell Unix; other
> differences from were scaling back.)
I've heard claims that setuid was also an innovation in unix. No idea
of the construct's history.
d/
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