From 58ff610e58b15337a36e052fcd775f267b3984fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:34:08 +0000 Subject: Improve the HISTORY sections of glob(7) and glob(3). 1. Make /etc/glob history less wordy and more precise: it was already in v1. 2. Remove the incorrect statement that the Bourne shell first integrated globbing. The PWB shell already did that in mid-1975, i.e. a least a few months before Stephen R. Bourne started working on his shell, and the PWB shell was publicly released with PWB/UNIX 1.0 about two years before v7. For details, see https://sjmulder.nl/dl/tuhs/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V06.6.pdf p. 39-40 OCR repost: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/xW3ZgEnFoFs From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Shell history, true facts, but long Date: 18 Mar 86 09:05:12 GMT [...] 3) The "PWB Shell" first appeared in mid-1975. [...] 4) The Bourne shell work started either in early 1976, or maybe late 1975. [...] In "The UNIX Shell", Stephen R. Bourne says: "The design of the shell is based in part on the original UNIX shell and the PWB/UNIX shell, some features having been taken from both." 3. Avoid the confusing statement that the glob() function first appeared in 4.4BSD. Actually, the PWB shell, the Bourne shell (in v7), the first UCB shell (in 1BSD), and the C shell (in 2BSD) all contained internal functions either called "glob()" or at least containing "glob" as a part of their function name. 4. Be more precise regarding when the current functions first appeared: they were already in Reno. Joint work with and OK jsg@. Feedback and OK jmc@. --- lib/libc/gen/glob.3 | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/glob.3 b/lib/libc/gen/glob.3 index 69166a831bc..99e29082904 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/glob.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/glob.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: glob.3,v 1.37 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: glob.3,v 1.38 2022/07/29 17:34:07 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2022 $ .Dt GLOB 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -472,12 +472,18 @@ and .Fa gl_flags should not be used by applications striving for strict standards conformance. .Sh HISTORY +A stand-alone program, +.Pa /etc/glob , +first appeared in +.At v1 . +In PWB/UNIX 1.0 this functionality was incorporated into the shell itself. +.Pp The .Fn glob and .Fn globfree -functions first appeared in -.Bx 4.4 . +functions in their current form first appeared in the C library of +.Bx 4.3 Reno . .Sh CAVEATS On systems other than .Ox , -- cgit v1.2.3