Some time ago, Sun made the source code for Solaris 8 available. The
complete source not the peices of linkable modules they used to provide
back when they bundled a C compiler.

In any case, does anyone know where I can download a copy?
I am particularly interested in SUN Sparcstation IPC internals and since
documentation is lacking, I thought I'd look at Solaris source.

Besides Solaris source will be better than shchelping through the Open
Source equivalents ...

Any ideas
rombios@acedsl.com

guest@AmonRa.eng.sun.com (guest) writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|Some time ago, Sun made the source code for Solaris 8 available. The
|complete source not the peices of linkable modules they used to provide
|back when they bundled a C compiler.
|
|In any case, does anyone know where I can download a copy?

Sorry, that program is no longer available. (And it wasn't the complete
source, but only a portion of it.)

|I am particularly interested in SUN Sparcstation IPC internals and since
|documentation is lacking, I thought I'd look at Solaris source.

Solaris 8 wouldn't be of much use to you there since Solaris 7 was the
last release to support sun4c machines such as the SparcStation IPC.

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Alan Coopersmith wrote:

>guest@AmonRa.eng.sun.com (guest) writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
>|Some time ago, Sun made the source code for Solaris 8 available. The
>|complete source not the peices of linkable modules they used to provide
>|back when they bundled a C compiler.
>|
>|In any case, does anyone know where I can download a copy?
>
>Sorry, that program is no longer available. (And it wasn't the complete
>source, but only a portion of it.)
>
>

I was on the program, and couldn't really work out what SUN really got
from the participants. I also do remember the 40-question quiz in order
to qualify - that was fun :^)

I also had an old (complete) SVR4 source years ago, which had in the su
command the standard "usage:.." message for ordinary users who screwed
up, but if root screwed up the command options, it responded with a
special SysAdmin usager error "sausage:.." :^)


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Why are all comedians fat? Bcoz they do too much in jesting.

Beardy <beardy@beardy.net> writes:
> I was on the program, and couldn't really work out what SUN really got
> from the participants.

Better and more bug reports is some cases... ;-)


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