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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2012-01-15 21:03:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2012-01-15 21:03:06 +0000 |
| commit | a77c320810e780975ed28ae29c66aa0afc95fb3f (patch) | |
| tree | f70384621f0022f7364de60f3311b4e46aad5d8f /lib/libc/sys/access.2 | |
| parent | 161a2fac0bae0356ddc472d29b8a22acd498585a (diff) | |
Document early history of a few functions specifically mentioned in 2BSD
manuals; however, it turned out all of these actually predate 2BSD.
All information from http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl.
ok jmc@ sobrado@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/access.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/access.2 | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/access.2 b/lib/libc/sys/access.2 index 08c47a922e5..92080c0c131 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/access.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/access.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.18 2011/07/19 20:58:05 matthew Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.19 2012/01/15 21:03:05 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: access.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:31:44 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)access.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/1/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 19 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2012 $ .Dt ACCESS 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -200,10 +200,26 @@ and functions conform to .St -p1003.1-2008 . .Sh HISTORY +.Fn access +first appeared as an internal kernel function in +.At v1 +and was reimplemented in C before the release of +.At v4 . +It was first promoted to a system call in the Programmer's Workbench +(PWB/UNIX), which was later ported to +.At v7 +and +.Bx 2 . +.Pp The .Fn faccessat function appeared in .Ox 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Ken Thompson +first implemented the +.Fn access +kernel function in C. .Sh CAVEATS .Fn access and |