In article <m11uhB6-000g6HC@most.weird.com>,
Greg A. Woods <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org> wrote:
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>I don't recall there being any explicit separate BSD API on AIX, at
>least not in 3.x.x (I've not really done much programming on 4.x, and
>what I did was actually running on an Apple Server and using GCC :-).

Well, linking with -lbsd gave you bsd signals, directory, and process
group semantics. As the posix stuff stabilized this went away.

>I think I did port what there was of zsh and pdksh to AIX-3 back then,
>but I don't recall any problems with job control.

It was 4 that broke things.

>Or are you talking about the virtual memory algorithm and SIGDANGER?

Yeah, that.

christos