On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Andrew Daugherity wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 06:18:43PM -0500:
>
> > Because I was curious, and Brian Conway had replied that this dated
> > back to the very first commit of OpenBSD in Oct. 1995
> > https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173caa26ffe1b7599b157/etc/netstart#L29
> > when it was > forked from NetBSD, I went looking through the NetBSD history.
> > Evidently support for /etc/my{name,gate} and /etc/hostname.* was added
> > in Apr. 1993, just before the release of NetBSD 0.8
> > https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/80e5f01ba42eb7e7bc57b9dfe71a889ab11f995c
>
> Continuing the timeline backwards:
>
> July 19, 1993 FreeBSD: Rodney W. Grimes adds myname(5) and mygate(5) support
> commit message:
> "From NetBSD, copied verbatium. May need some work yet."
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/0a71fe69
> This tells us that none of this came from FreeBSD.
> Apr 20, 1993 NetBSD 0.8 release
> Apr 02, 1993 cgd@ commits myname(5) and mygate(5) support to NetBSD
> Jul 14, 1992 386BSD 0.1 release
> There, /etc/netstart uses /etc/myname (but not mygate)
> https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/blob/0.1/etc/netstart
> Appears to be based on SCCS revision 5.9, but with modifications
no /etc/myname in the 386BSD 0.1 sources that were on minnie.tuhs.org
https://github.com/jonathangray/386bsd/blob/master/othersrc/etc/netstart
extracting the 0.1 etc files from another source also doesn't have it
If it were really in 0.1, there wouldn't be commits to add it to
NetBSD and FreeBSD.
> March 1992 386BSD 0.0 release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/386BSD-0.0-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/etc/netstart
> So 0.0 is apparently based on Net/2 (5.9) without modifications.
> Aug 20, 1991 4.3BSD Net/2 release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9
> June 1990 4.3BSD-Reno release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9
>
> OK?
> Ingo
Why should people know the release these manual pages appeared?
>
>
> Index: mygate.5
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/mygate.5,v
> diff -u -r1.2 mygate.5
> --- mygate.5 17 Oct 2021 13:20:46 -0000 1.2
> +++ mygate.5 28 Mar 2025 13:35:11 -0000
> @@ -82,5 +82,9 @@
> .Xr netstart 8 ,
> .Xr route 8
> .Sh HISTORY
> -This manual page first appeared in
> +Support for the file
> +.Pa /etc/mygate
> +first appeared in
> +.Nx 0.8
> +and this manual page first appeared in
> .Ox 3.4 .
> Index: myname.5
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/myname.5,v
> diff -u -r1.12 myname.5
> --- myname.5 1 Jul 2021 01:16:13 -0000 1.12
> +++ myname.5 28 Mar 2025 13:35:11 -0000
> @@ -64,5 +64,7 @@
> .Xr hostname 7 ,
> .Xr rc 8
> .Sh HISTORY
> -This manual page first appeared in
> +Support for the file
> +.Pa /etc/myname
> +first appeared in 386BSD 0.1 and this manual page first appeared in
> .Ox 3.4 .
>
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