On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdam...@sun.com> wrote: > On 03/ 2/10 03:57 AM, casper....@sun.com wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Garrett D'Amore<gdam...@sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I'm just thinking, isn't it time we just bit the bullet and told our >>>> users >>>> to start using the POSIX defaults, instead of continuing to supply the >>>> legacy compatibility stuff forever. >>>> >> >> I believe a number of scripts requires certain tools from that package so >> I think we always need to install them; however, I think it is better >> that we try our level to merge them into the standard location. >> > > And *that* is what I was saying. I think we should finally adopt the POSIX > semantics.
Provided it's a reasonable merge. For example, I updated du (seems like ages ago now) so that the regular and xpg4 versions both understood -d and -x. There are going to be some differences that are unavoidable, but allowing the use of common old-fashioned flags where there aren't conflicts makes transition so much easier. I haven't looked recently to see how big a problem this is still. What I do know is that working in a heterogeneous environment (and with different configurations mixed in) the minor differences in behaviour drive me up the wall. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
