Q: Patching Binaries under AIX 1.1

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <1162 at ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer at ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <97241 at pyramid.pyramid.com> mowat at pyrshadow (Eric Mowat) writes:
>>Adb was removed from AIX 1.1 because the only version Locus had contained
>>AT&T code.
>
>In that case, IBM should simply be shipping blank floppy disks.
>OF COURSE it contains AT&T code, as do every shred of those
>applications which are not unique to IBM, and much of the kernel.  
 
Yes, well Eric was mistaken. The reason that I have been told is quite
simply that adb is not part of the SysV release. So in a sense Eric is
right, it is AT&T code that is not part of the license.

>I've heard rumors that adb will be included with the next release.
>We'll see.
 
Now, now Steve, don't go and start unfounded rumors :-} ! If you mean the
1.2 release then I will have to nip this in the proverbial bud, no it
definitely is not included, nor do I believe it ever will be. Sorry
about that guys, I would like to see it around as much as anyone, sure
makes debugging panics easier! Guess we'll just have to live with dbx
and crash.

Disclaimer: These opinions are mine, not necessarily IBM's or LCC's.



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