[ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/17/2013 8:06 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> (The shell having syntax that made pipes scriptable rather than only
> being compiled as in Multics was the major advance in Bell Unix; other
> differences from were scaling back.)


I've heard claims that setuid was also an innovation in unix.  No idea 
of the construct's history.

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