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09-27-2006

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OK, there are no real Unix systems now. That ended with SysV. However, there is a trademark for UNIX, as Perderabo points out here. Now, whether a system can be called UNIX is no longer decided by its similarity with the original Unix, but by whether the company that sells it (Sun, HP, IBM, and so on) has the license to that trademark.

Sun, HP, IBM and others that sell UNIX have a trademark that allows them to call their product that. However, the BSD family and GNU/Linux, do not have the right to call themselves UNIX. This is why GNU/Linux is not UNIX.

This is all that I can think of.

The controversy of who owns the trademark and who owns the source is altogether different, but just a glimple:
According to my understanding, the Unix source code is owned by SCO, but the trademark is owned by The Open Group (see www.unix.org). So, unless you license the source from SCO along with the trademark from The Open Group, you cannot use the original Unix source in your UNIX flavour!

--EDIT
Caldera (now SCO) released the original Unix source under the BSD license in 2002.
--/EDIT

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)                                                    System Administration                                                   MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [options] device [block-count]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs filesystem on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The block-count parameter is the desired size of the filesystem, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used.

OPTIONS

       -N, --inodes number
              Specify  the  desired  number  of  inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified, some default number in the range 48-512 is picked
              depending on the size of the partition.

       -V, --vname label
              Specify the volume label.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F, --fname name
              Specify the filesystem name.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v, --verbose
              Explain what is being done.

       -c     This option is silently ignored.

       -l     This option is silently ignored.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.  Option -V only works as --version when it is the only option.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2011                                                         MKFS.BFS(8)