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Re: acl: improve support for Tru64


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: acl: improve support for Tru64
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:07:54 -0700
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> OSF/1 is not too far from losing its "reasonable portability
> target" status, so even if it breaks, few will notice.

OSF/1 last shipped circa 1995, right?  If so, clearly vanilla OSF/1
long ago lost its "reasonable portability target" status.

However, OSF/1's successor Tru64 UNIX is still very much alive.
HP is still releasing new versions and says they'll support it at least
through 2012.  See
<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/pdf/Tru64_Roadmap_Current.pdf>.

I see that the recent patch talks about "OSF/1".  It might be helpful
for comments like that to mention Tru64 as well, as many folks don't
know the technical history behind Tru64 and won't know that OSF/1
comments often apply to Tru64.




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