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 . >
