access(2) alarm(2) pause(2) were not ported from pwb to v7

Alan Glasser describes the incident that led to access(2) in
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-November/024657.html

access(2) alarm(2) pause(2) were also part of the "50 changes" tape

post v6 "50 bugs" / "diff tape" / "50 fixes" tape (Salus QCU, pp 138-139)
"fifty changes" tape
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html

"50 changes"
https://archive.org/details/unix_news_november-1976

tuhs/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
usr/sys/v6unix/changenotes

45) The "access()" system call checks access permissions on the real
id's of the process regardless of the effective ones.  Doesn't return
stats, just does an internal "access()" to set u.u_error.

48) "alarm()" and "pause()" system calls are in to provide a user-mode
timeout capability.

with and ok schwarze@

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
index 0b06b46..b4aa10b 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: alarm.3,v 1.16 2021/06/18 22:21:29 cheloha Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: alarm.3,v 1.17 2022/08/02 01:23:23 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993, 1994
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 18 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 2 2022 $
 .Dt ALARM 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -84,9 +84,11 @@ function conforms to
 .Sh HISTORY
 An
 .Fn alarm
-system call appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX)
-and was ported to
-.At v7 .
+system call first appeared outside of Bell Labs in the
+.Dq 50 changes
+tape for
+.At v6 .
+It was first officially released with PWB/UNIX 1.0.
 For
 .Bx 4.1c ,
 it was reimplemented as a wrapper around the

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3 b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
index 9795901..47ec932 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: pause.3,v 1.14 2015/09/23 08:52:56 sobrado Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: pause.3,v 1.15 2022/08/02 01:23:23 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 23 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 2 2022 $
 .Dt PAUSE 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ The call was interrupted.
 .Sh HISTORY
 A
 .Fn pause
-system call first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX)
-and was then ported to
-.At v7 .
+system call first appeared outside of Bell Labs in the
+.Dq 50 changes
+tape for
+.At v6 .
+It was first officially released with PWB/UNIX 1.0.
 It was reimplemented as a wrapper around the
 .Fn sigpause
 and

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/access.2 b/lib/libc/sys/access.2
index 38b7ef3..cb58305 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libc/sys/access.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/access.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.25 2015/01/19 15:54:11 millert Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: access.2,v 1.26 2022/08/02 01:23:23 jsg Exp $
 .\"    $NetBSD: access.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:31:44 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)access.2   8.2 (Berkeley) 4/1/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 19 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 2 2022 $
 .Dt ACCESS 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -218,13 +218,14 @@ functions conform to
 .Sh HISTORY
 .Fn access
 first appeared as an internal kernel function in
-.At v1
-and was reimplemented in C before the release of
-.At v4 .
-It was first promoted to a system call in the Programmer's Workbench
-(PWB/UNIX), which was later ported to
-.At v7
-and
+.At v1 .
+It became a system call,
+first appearing outside of Bell Labs in the
+.Dq 50 changes
+tape for
+.At v6 .
+The first official release with the system call was PWB/UNIX 1.0.
+It was also included in
 .Bx 2 .
 .Pp
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